The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters, Volume 4Saunders & Otley, 1835 |
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... truth Extracts from Cowper's poems on Negro slavery Case of Somerset , a slave , and Lord Mansfield's judg- ment Final abolition of slavery by Great Britain , and efforts making for the religious instruction of the Negroes Probability ...
... truth Extracts from Cowper's poems on Negro slavery Case of Somerset , a slave , and Lord Mansfield's judg- ment Final abolition of slavery by Great Britain , and efforts making for the religious instruction of the Negroes Probability ...
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... truth , and of the influence of prejudice and error , that De Las Casas pleaded the injustice of slavery , before the Emperor Charles V. nearly three hundred years from the present time ; and that it required this long and protracted ...
... truth , and of the influence of prejudice and error , that De Las Casas pleaded the injustice of slavery , before the Emperor Charles V. nearly three hundred years from the present time ; and that it required this long and protracted ...
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... truth enlarged , are doubly freed . Then would he say , submissive at thy feet , While gratitude and love made service sweet , “ My dear deliverer out of hopeless night , Whose bounty bought me but to give me light , I was a bondman on ...
... truth enlarged , are doubly freed . Then would he say , submissive at thy feet , While gratitude and love made service sweet , “ My dear deliverer out of hopeless night , Whose bounty bought me but to give me light , I was a bondman on ...
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... truth makes free , And all are slaves beside . There's not a chain That hellish foes , confed'rate for his harm , Can wind around him , but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes . He looks abroad into the varied ...
... truth makes free , And all are slaves beside . There's not a chain That hellish foes , confed'rate for his harm , Can wind around him , but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes . He looks abroad into the varied ...
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... truth is that , could I write with both hands , and with both at the same time , verse with one and prose with the other , I should not even so be able to dispatch both my poetry and my arrears of correspondence faster than I have need ...
... truth is that , could I write with both hands , and with both at the same time , verse with one and prose with the other , I should not even so be able to dispatch both my poetry and my arrears of correspondence faster than I have need ...
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Page 158 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee, slow, away, And turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was. — Where thou art gone, Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return.
Page 217 - I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Page 14 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Page 6 - With daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, B,y forms unfashion'd, fresh from nature's hand, Fierce in their native hardiness of soul, True to imagined right, above control, While e'en the peasant boasts these rights to scan, And learns to venerate himself as man.
Page 141 - God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth : thy right hand is full of righteousness. 11 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments. 12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her : tell the towers thereof.
Page 158 - By expectation every day beguiled, Dupe of to-morrow even from a child. Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learn'd at last submission to my lot, But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot.
Page 5 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 15 - There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes.
Page 3 - Still in thought as free as ever, What are England's rights, I ask, Me from my delights to sever, Me to torture, me to task? Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit Nature's claim ; Skins may differ, but affection? Dwells in white and black the same.
Page 272 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.