 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 company.  Bell's Edition - Page 229by John Bell - 1796Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...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...opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such ; Say, here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy ail creatures for thy sport... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 pages
...douce image. Le bonheur d'exister suffit seul à ses vœux. Jamais des Séraphins il n'envia les IVux. But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful...shall bear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou ! and, in the scale of sensé, Weigh thy Opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...thirst for gold. To be, content's his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; 110 IV. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh...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 - 1821 - 378 pages
...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 that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Pof E. HAPPENING, a few days ago, to take up a volume of Lord Erskine's speeches, I was peculiarly... | |
 | 1845 - 716 pages
...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 that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company — we are carried back to the time of Augustus and the Elysian Fields, where the souls of the blessed... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...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 company. Go, wiser thou, and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; 110 But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful...Opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such, 115 Say, Here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; 110 But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful...Opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such, 115 Say, Here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 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'st such; Say here he gives too little, there too much; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...Christians thirst for gold. I 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 company. Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence; Call imperfection... | |
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