 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
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1839 - 542 pages
...train, which awaited these arrangements in silent wonder, that it might now approach. CHAPTER III. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy...opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such ; Say, here he gives too little, there too much; Destroy all creatures for thy sport... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1850 - 516 pages
...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." It would exceed the limits of this paper to enter into a description of the varieties of the dog; but... | |
 | P. Sadler - 1841 - 362 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. POPB. WE ALL DEPEND... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...thirst for gold. 2. 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. — POPE. QUESTIONS. — 1. What tradition does the writer mention as existing among a certain tribe... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; ; Say, here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy all creatures (be thy sport or gust. Yet... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; ',ni thinks, admitted to that equal sky, iw is clouded brow Hang lowering ; from his half-opening...The clammy venom, and infectious froth, Distilling 'all imperfection what thou faury'st such ; Say, here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...desire,^ He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire O 110 But thinks, admitted to that equal skyj — His faithful dog shall bear him company.— « IV....against providence : Call imperfection, what thou fanciest such, \ US' Say, here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 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. As men, in forming their first impressions concerning the invisible world, suppose they shall feel... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 pages
...Sermons, vol. vi. p. 251. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire j But thinks admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Pope. Essay on Man, Epistle 1. But as true wit is nothing else but a similitude in ideas, so is false... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...thirst for gold. 5. 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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