 | Suzanne Miale Miller, Suzanne M. Miller, Barbara McCaskill - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 318 pages
...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... | |
 | Emília Viotti da Costa - Guyana - 1994 - 406 pages
...ferried over 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; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That is noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - History - 1995 - 298 pages
...with their 1 o bones." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 3.2.81-82. 5. "Slaves cannot breathe in England, if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they...They touch our country, and their shackles fall." William Cowper, The Task 2.40-42. 6. "The fair humanities of old religion." Samuel Taylor Coleridge,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 228 pages
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 | Donald Rutherford - Classical school of economics - 1996 - 520 pages
...on this subject: — it might have occurred to him that — 'Slaves cannot breathe in England: — if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing.' Of this, however, Mr. Fearon knows nothing — he found it not in the enlightened pages of the Examiner... | |
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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. 
