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Slaves Cannot Breathe In England; If Their Lungs Receive Our Air, That Moment They Are Free!
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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.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
-- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 40
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England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 206...
There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 285...
Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 444...
She that asks Her dear five hundred friends.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 642...
Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man, That Chatham's language was his mother tongue.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 235...
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 363...
Reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 411...
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 17...
His head, Not yet by time completely silver'd o'er, Bespoke him past the bounds of freakish youth, But strong for service still, and unimpair'd.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 702...