 | Michel Fabre - 1991 - 388 páginas
...cultural link between American Negroes and France. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Cowper's lines epitomized England's aspiration to be the champion of abolitionism. In... | |
 | David Turley - 1991 - 284 páginas
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 | Angela Partington - 1992 - 1098 páginas
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 | Andrew Carnegie - 1992 - 352 páginas
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 | Suzanne Miale Miller, Suzanne M. Miller, Barbara McCaskill - 1993 - 318 páginas
...hypocrisy. "Slaves cannot breathe in England," William Cowper had rejoiced in 1785, "if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free! / They touch our country, and their shackles fall" (Task, 1836-1837, Book II, line 40). By act of Parliament and official decree, England... | |
 | Bernardo M. Ferdman, Rose-Marie Weber, Arnulfo G. Ramirez - 1994 - 360 páginas
...Cowper's "Time-Piece," the second book of his Task: Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. (Lines 40-43) I have read these same lines in The Liberator, the point guard of the... | |
 | Ruth Rendell - 1994 - 344 páginas
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 | Emília Viotti da Costa - 1994 - 406 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 páginas
...bones." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 3.2.81-82. 5. "Slaves cannot breathe in England, if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free; / They touch our country, and their shackles fall." William Cowper, The Task 2.40-42. 6. "The fair humanities of old religion." Samuel... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 228 páginas
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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. 
