| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 lehte
...1863, when the settlement was taking place in a different currency, — in steel and not in gold: — "Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the...owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." His sympathies were all and always with freedom. He spoke with indignation of the outrage on Sumner;... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 606 lehte
...1863, when the settlement was taking place in a different currency, — in steel and not in gold : — "Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the...owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." His sympathies were all and always with freedom. He spoke with indignation of the outrage on Sumner... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1892 - 274 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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 lehte
...when the settlement was taking place in a different currency, — in steel and not in gold : — " Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him." His sympathies were all and always with freedom. He spoke with indignation of the outrage on Sumner... | |
| Frank Preston Stearns - 1892 - 260 lehte
...moment that President Lincoln issued his proclamation of emancipation. When he came to the stanza, " Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim....owner ? The slave is owner And ever was. Pay him," he spoks the last verse with such emphasis that the whole audience were startled by it. I can see him... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 lehte
...1863, when the settlement was taking place in a different currency, — in steel and not in gold : — "Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the...owner ? The slave is owner, . And ever was. Pay him." {/S His sympathies were all and always with freedom. He spoke with indignation of the outrage on Sumner... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 lehte
...when the settlement was taking place in a different currency, — in steel and not in gold : — " Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave ia owner, And ever was. Pay him." His sympathies were all and always with freedom. He spoke with indignation... | |
| Harry Quelch - 1893 - 20 lehte
...take them with or without compensation. They knew what Emerson said about the slave business : — 12 Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim ; Bat who is owner ? The slave is owner ; And ever was ; pay him. He maintained that if any men had... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 352 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 was. Fay him. O North ! give him beauty for rags, And honor, O South ! for his shame ; Nevada ! coin thy... | |
| American Philological Association - 1890 - 192 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. could Emerson have caused his main idea to strike home with equal force by any arrangement whereby... | |
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