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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 220
by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pages
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2

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,...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

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....
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

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...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

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...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which ...

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...
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The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History ..., Volume 1

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...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

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...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

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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