 Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 62by Joseph Warton - 1806Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...nulky way ; Yet simple nature to h,s hope has given, BehinQ the cloud-topt h,ll, an humbler heaven; d the grave. • His lovely daughter, watery waste, Where slaves once more their nanve land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...Far as the solar walk, or milky way ; Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, ( No... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...the Solar Walk or Milky Way ; Yet .simple nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill, a humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods...fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire « But thinks, admitted to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; 110 But thinks, admitted to... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be content 's his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...humbler heav'n; ••me safer world in depth of woods enabrac'd, 5. To be, contents his natural desire ; Some happier island in the wat'ry waste; Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends toiment, no Christians thirst for gold. He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...safer world in depth of woods embrae'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves onee r. \\Tiy has not man a mieroseopie eontents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...the Solar Walk or Milky Way ; Tet simple nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill a humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of Woods...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5. I'o BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 454 pages
...has given Beyond the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven . * Clarkson's Life of Wm. Penn, vol. ip 391. Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. The tradition which describes the hades, or invisible world, as seated in the clouds, was chiefly common... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...the Solar Walk or Jlilky Way, Yet, simple nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill a humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods...Where slaves once more their native land behold, No flends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5 To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's... | |
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