 | Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1889 - 534 lehte
...Emerson's poem which won loudest applause was that on compensation : " Pay ransom to the owner, And till the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him ! " «9 CHAP. in. tion had been issued and was coming over the wires. The ,^3. storm of applause which... | |
 | Wendell Phillips Garrison - 1889 - 468 lehte
...Proclama1 The verse in Mr. Emerson's poem which won loudest applause was that on compensation : •• Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner I The slave Is owner, And ever was. Pay him!" CHAP. in. tion had been issued and was coming over the... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 192 lehte
...the captive — So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trumpet of rescue sound ! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honour, O South ! for his shame. Nevada ! coin thy golden crags... | |
 | Thomas Dwight Goodell - 1890 - 54 lehte
...conveyed in a Latin hexameter as good as that of Horace, would scarcely have raised a smile. In the lines, Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. 1 Cf. Dion. Hal. Tr«/>l trui'fltVt wv, 6. could Emerson have caused his main idea to strike home with... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1890 - 774 lehte
...message to recommend the purchase of the slaves, Emerson was penning a hymn whose burden was — ' ' Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." It was the poet, not the statesman, who felt the resistless impulse of battle — " Come East and West... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 lehte
...the captive, So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound ! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner? The slave is owner, And ever waa. Pay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South ! for his shame ; Nevada ! coin... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 lehte
...unbind the captive— So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trumpet of rescue sound ! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the ovmer ? The slave is owner, And ever wast. Pay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honour,... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 lehte
...unbind the captive— So only are ye unbound ; Lift up a people from the dust, Trumpet of rescue sound ! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the oivner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honour,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1892 - 266 lehte
...the captive, So only are ye unbound : Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their freedom, sound ! Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim...owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. That poem was not written for a few cultivated people only. I heard it read to an armed regiment of... | |
 | 1891 - 508 lehte
...the captive, * So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound! Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. TO Who is the owner ? The slave is owner. And ever was. Pay him. O North! give him beauty for rags,... | |
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Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him. 
