 As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings,...  Poems - Էջ 40William Cowper - 1812Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 էջ
...Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps upernatural agency. For the second class, subjects...the characters and incidents were to be such as will f I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 3° And tremble... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 էջ
...Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And huving human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 էջ
...sweat With stripes that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. 25 S o' life victorious I But pleasures are like poppies...seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed ; 60 Or like man?j I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble... | |
 | 1898 - 798 էջ
...Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes that Mercy, with a bleeding heart., Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man?...human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, lo think himself a man? LXVII Dissertation allemande. \. Lessing aïs Vorkàmpfer 3. Die rotnanlische... | |
 | Susan Koppelman - 1987 - 348 էջ
...name not love — while men can doom The fruit of love, to Slavery from the womb." — MONTGOMERY. "And what man seeing this, And having human feelings,...blush, And hang his head to think himself a man?" — COWPER. On the finely macadamized road which leads from La Prairie to Montreal, a number of low... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 էջ
...and connection among ideas, it is instructive to see a poem entitled "On Slavery," by William Cowper ("And what man seeing this,/ And having human feelings, does not blush/ And hang his head, . . . .") followed by the same author's "The Bastile" ("The shame to manhood, and opprobrious more/... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - 1991 - 490 էջ
...novels of Scott and Jane Austen that were absorbing her contemporaries. She could quote Thomas Cowper's "I would not have a slave to till my ground/ To carry me, to fan me while I sleep," and "Fleecy locks and black complexion/ Cannot forfeit nature's claim;/ Skins may differ, but affection/Dwells... | |
 | Maria J. Falco - 2010 - 250 էջ
...poignant passage from William Cowper's poem, "The Task," popular with the contemporary reading public: I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when 1 wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and... | |
 | Dorothy Sterling - 1999 - 244 էջ
...moral. Lucretia's favorite was William Cowper. When, with flashing eyes and ringing voice, she recited: "I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the gold That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation,... | |
 | Marcus Wood - 2003 - 772 էջ
...Chains him, and tasks him. and exacts his sweat With stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man?...To carry me, to fan me while I sleep. And tremble while I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom... | |
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