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... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 220by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1822 - 690 pages
...once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be content "s his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's...admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall hear him company." Pops. HAPPENING, a few days ago, to take up a volume of Lord Erskine's speeches,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 pages
...ernbrac'd, Some happier island in the watVy waste; Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold....BE, contents his natural desire; He asks no angel's wingi no seraph's fire : But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dug shall bear him company.... | |
| 1822 - 284 pages
...seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. 4. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy...opinion against Providence; Call imperfection what thou fancy's! such; Say here he gives too little, there too much; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, nor Christians thirst for gold. To BE, contents his natural...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Provideuse ; Call imperfection... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 pages
...desire, le asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire ; 110 Jut thinks, admitted to that equal sky, lis faithful dog shall bear him company. > IV. Go, wiser...opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such, Say, here he gives too little, there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport... | |
| William Oxberry - 1824 - 384 pages
...more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be content ':' his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's...sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company."— POPE. HAPPENING, a few days ago, to take up a volume of Lord Erskine's speeches, I was peculiarly struck... | |
| William Oxberry - 1824 - 384 pages
...once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be content "s his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's...to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company."—POPE. HAPPENING, a few days ago, to take up a volume of Lord Erskine's speeches, I was... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...more their nanve land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents hitt t sorrows gloom'd that parting day, That call'd them...the poor exiles, every pleasure past. Hung round t Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against providence; Call imperfection... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold....desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; 110 COMMENTARY. them (from ver. 98 to 113.) with the example of the poor Indian, to whom also Nature... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pages
...embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold....desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; 110 COMMENTARY. them (from ver. 98 to 113.) with the example of the poor Indian, to whom also Nature... | |
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