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" Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians... "
An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke - Page 7
by Alexander Pope - 1844 - 48 pages
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An Essay on Man: To which are Added, the Universal Prayer, and Other ...

Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...humbler heav'n : Some safer world, in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...fiends torment, no Christians 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 !...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 74

English literature - 1845 - 716 pages
...hill, an humbler heav'nt Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...fiends torment, no 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...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...science nevrr tauirht to stray Far as the Solar Walk o Milky Way ; Some happier island in the wal'ry waste; Where slaves once more their native land behold,...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 3. To be, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire : But thinks, admitted...
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L'essai sur l'homme

Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 252 pages
...an humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods 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. To Be , contents his natural desire , He asks no Angel's wing , no Seraph's fixe ; But thinks...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope;

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...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...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...hill, a humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods ernbrac'd, Some happier island in the watVy waste; Where slaves once more their native land behold,...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 New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2

1822 - 690 pages
...has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler HeavenSome safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...fiends torment, no 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...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 41

British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...given, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...fiends torment, no 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...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...hill, a humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the wat'ry waste; Where slaves once more their native land behold,...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. I To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted...
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