 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
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 352 pages
...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. SECTION IV. OF THE GROUPING OF SPEECH. THE idea involved in the Grouping of Speech, requires for its... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 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 dog shall bear him company. IV. Go wiser thou 1 and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest... | |
 | Ed Jewinski, Andrew Stubbs - 1992 - 180 pages
...this very struggle" (xviii). The Mandel Case: Notes Towards a Poetics of Persecution ANDREW STUBBS Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy Opinion against Providence; Call 1mperfection what thou fancy'st such. Say, here he gives too little, there too much; Destroy all creatures... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...wind; (Fr. Epistle I) 77 To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; and frail prosperity, That so live here as ye should never hence. Remember deat (Fr. Epistle I) 78 Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man.... | |
 | Pierre François - 1999 - 332 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. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man IN THE ART OF WILLIAM GOLDING, Bernard S. Oldsey and Stanley Weintraub... | |
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...in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; . . . But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Epistle i, lines 99 -102, 111-12 Another parody of these lines is found at "Severally." Hybrid ] For... | |
 | Peter Martin - 2001 - 228 pages
...of her. I am content. 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. — Alexander Pope -ino )!S!A jx JJUJPM suiij. Aq 'xsssns JSSM '^Jng jo aSeuiA siji ui 98ej}03 33j;3jddy... | |
 | John A. Richardson - 2004 - 210 pages
...circumscribed hope: 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. (Essay on Man, 1.10&-112) The modest heaven described here is the 'safer world' and the 'native land'... | |
 | Maureen Konkle - 2004 - 388 pages
...Copway leaves out the concluding lines of this stanza: "He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; / But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, / His faithful dog shall bear him company" (3.110—12). He would have had to edit. Pope writes about the order of the English Enlightenment universe,... | |
 | Laura M. Stevens - 2004 - 284 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.'* In this passage Pope links the scientist's hubris with the Indian's naivete, chiding both for reducing... | |
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