 | 1875 - 388 ページ
...were chasing one another down the black cheeks, and truly the lines were vividly recalled to mind " Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same." His heart was doubtless overflowing with love to His God, and also to those who had been instrumental... | |
 | 1891 - 874 ページ
...contact. If any explanation were needed, it is furnished in the famous couplet of William Cooper : " Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit Nature's...but affection Dwells in white and black the same." I never saw, and Senator Morgan never saw. an Afro- American who desired social equality with any Anglo-Saxon... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1893 - 332 ページ
...something of Cowper's wishy-washy sentimentality, as, " Fleecy locks and black complexion,2 Cannot alter Nature's claim ; Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.s " Abolitionist. The Britons' inaptitude to learn music and other accomplishments may still be... | |
 | Robert Spence Watson - 1897 - 474 ページ
...was no petition for the poor whites, the " brave and hardy seamen," and yet the poet had said — " Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same." Highwaymen were not unknown : so near to us as on Gateshead Fell even the royal mail being robbed.... | |
 | Samuel Robert Cassius - 1898 - 26 ページ
...me, Minds are never to be sold. 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 Can not forfeit nature's claim; Skin may differ, but affection Dwells in black and white the same.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1898 - 104 ページ
...Are laid with thee at rest! 1 " 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? " COWPER'S The Negro's Complaint. The great, the wealthy, fear thy blow, 85 From pomp and pleasure... | |
 | William Alexander Parsons Martin - 1901 - 526 ページ
...compassion, and sounded the note of anti-slavery long before the abolition of the trade in slaves : — " Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's...but affection Dwells in white and black the same." Against particular vices there are numerous tracts which are earnest and powerful. In some, the enormities... | |
 | George Riddle - 1902 - 648 ページ
...herself went down by the island crags To be lost evermore in the main. POMPEY'S GHOST. By THOMAS HOOD. "Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same." — Cowper. TWAS twelve o'clock, not twelve at night, But twelve o'clock at noon; Because the sun was... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 948 ページ
...me, Minds are never to be sold. 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...but affection Dwells in white and black the same. Why did all-creating nature Make the plant for which we toil ? Sighs must fan it, tears must water,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 716 ページ
...me, Minds are never to be sold. 8 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...and black complexion Cannot forfeit nature's claim ; ,Skinsjna differ, but affection n white and black ffie same. 16 30 employ 1800. 33 incurr'd 1800.... | |
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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... 
