 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
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...embrac'd. Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land he-hold, s his h fancy's! such ; Say, here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy all creatures (be thy sport... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, ed, soon expect a change, A dismal change, confusion,...some dark recess the senseless brute Sits sadly pini ; ',ni thinks, admitted to that equal sky, iw faithful dog shall bear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste ; Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold....equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 pages
...more their native land behold, No fiends torment, nor Christians thirst for gold. To be content 's his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. As men, in forming their first impressions concerning the invisible world, suppose they shall feel... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the watry 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; no But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou!... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; (Fr. Epistle I) 77 To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no Angel's...equal sky. His faithful dog shall bear him company. (Fr. Epistle I) 78 Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man.... | |
 | Pierre François - 1999 - 332 pages
...embrac'd, Some happier island in the watry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold!...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man IN THE ART OF WILLIAM GOLDING, Bernard S. Oldsey and Stanley Weintraub... | |
 | Peter Martin - 2001 - 228 pages
...irreplaceable. There has not been a day since her death when I have not thought of her. I am content. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. — Alexander Pope -ino )!S!A jx JJUJPM suiij. Aq 'xsssns JSSM '^Jng jo aSeuiA siji ui 98ej}03 33j;3jddy... | |
 | Laura M. Stevens - 2004 - 284 pages
...embrac'd, Some happier island in the watry waste, Where slaves once more their native lands behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold!...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.'* In this passage Pope links the scientist's hubris with the Indian's naivete, chiding both for reducing... | |
 | John A. Richardson - 2004 - 210 pages
...occurs a few lines later and in a similar context. He is a person with a properly circumscribed hope: To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. (Essay on Man, 1.10&-112) The modest heaven described here is the 'safer world' and the 'native land'... | |
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