 | C. James Trotman - 2002 - 294 Seiten
...curses him in the same liquid terms. By the bay, Douglass in turn, "with no audience but the Almighty, would pour out my soul's complaint, in my rude way,...with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships," not men (NFD, 76). Water is reclaimed from the depths as Douglass works through his passage; slaves... | |
 | Frederick Douglass, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 2003 - 498 Seiten
...the banks of that noble bay, and traced, with saddened heart and tearful eye, the countless number of sails moving off to the mighty ocean. The sight...compel utterance, and there, with no audience but the Ahnighty, I would pour out my soul's complaint in my rude way with an apostrophe to the moving multitude... | |
 | Howard L. Sacks, Judith Rose Sacks - 2003 - 292 Seiten
...saddened heart and tearful eye. the countless number of sails moving off to that mighty ocean. I he sight of these always affected me powerfully. My thoughts...compel utterance: and there. with no audience but the Ahnighty. 1 would pour out my soul - complaint. in my rude way. with an apostrophe to the moving umhimde... | |
 | Joanne M. Braxton - 2004 - 172 Seiten
...lofty banks of that noble bay, and traced, with saddened heart and tearful eye, the countless number of sails moving off to the mighty ocean. The sight...with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships (Douglass 74). With similar symbolic gestures, African American writers have repeatedly added to Douglass'... | |
 | Nathan Grant - 2004 - 253 Seiten
...reflects Douglass's famous apostrophe to the ships moving across the wide expanse of the Chesapeake Bay: "You are loosed from your moorings and are free! I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip!... | |
 | John David Cox - 2010 - 266 Seiten
...to the moving multitude of ships," as he watches these boats from the hillside overlooking the bay: "You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip!... | |
 | Audrey Fisch - 2007 - 230 Seiten
...powerful effect of seeing the ships, "robed in purest white," sailing from every quarter of the globe: You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip!... | |
 | Moritz Oehl - 2007 - 129 Seiten
...laments over the freedom which the ships in the Chesapeake Bay possess and which he cannot yet obtain: You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip!... | |
 | Jane Mallison - 2007 - 315 Seiten
...sharp point. His lengthy longing address to the sails of ships, which he could see in Chesapeake Bay ("You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave") is matched in emotional power by his description of the "wild" or "apparently... | |
 | Frederick Douglass - 2003 - 140 Seiten
...lofty banks of that noble bay, and traced, with saddened heart and tearful eye, the countless number of sails moving off to the mighty ocean. The sight...loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip!... | |
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You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom's swift-winged angels, that fly round the world; I am confined in bands... 
