 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 стор.
...slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That...cannot breathe in England : if their lungs Receive our ;ur, th;U. moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shack'es fall. That's noble, and... | |
 | 1834 - 504 стор.
...the first beams of whose sun melt his servile bonds ; and whose boast and glory it is to say, that ' Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...; They touch our country, and their shackles fall ;' — . Owing my earliest impressions to such a land, I can have no fellowship with slavery in any... | |
 | 1830 - 824 стор.
...in our fertile and beautiful island. Cowper has said, " We Ijave no slaves at home, then why abroad? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That...emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England." Has not the bard here asserted more than can be proved ? It is true we have not, like the planters... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 стор.
...wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6 Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lunys Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Thafs noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 стор.
...slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home : — Then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 стор.
...slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — Then why abroad 1 And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and toos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they arc free... | |
 | 1924 - 594 стор.
...(955-6)]. THE SLAVE IN ENGLAND. — It was no idle boast of William Cowper's — "Slaves cannot live in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free — but that was in 1783, more than a decade after Lord Mansfield had said in the case of the Negro,... | |
 | John Wesley Cromwell - 1914 - 344 стор.
...no such law. This decision inspired Cowper's lines: Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lunga Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall. "The Story of the Slave," see, also, "Slavery and Anti-Slavery," William Goodell, for an elaborate... | |
 | Michel Fabre - 1991 - 388 стор.
...represents an early, important, and for a time the only, cultural link between American Negroes and France. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...free, They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Cowper's lines epitomized England's aspiration to be the champion of abolitionism. In quoting them... | |
 | Suzanne Miale Miller, Suzanne M. Miller, Barbara McCaskill - 1993 - 318 стор.
...Americans' own hypocrisy. "Slaves cannot breathe in England," William Cowper had rejoiced in 1785, "if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they.../ They touch our country, and their shackles fall" (Task, 1836-1837, Book II, line 40). By act of Parliament and official decree, England had emancipated... | |
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Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country and their shackles fall. 
