 | 1850 - 510 pages
...given Behind the cloud-topped hill an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depths of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste ; Where slaves...no Christians thirst for gold. To be — contents bis natural desire : He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Future life - 1831 - 288 pages
...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...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold, — And thinks, admitted to yon equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." POPE. Among the... | |
 | James Backhouse - Quakers - 1831 - 400 pages
...States men ; she alluded to these lines of Pope, in relation to the imaginary Heaven of Indians. ' Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment; no Christians thirst for gold.1 " -And added, in reference to some who profess to be Christians : " They do indeed thirst after... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 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,...be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph•s fire; 110 But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, ilia faithful dog shall bear... | |
 | George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - English language - 1832 - 122 pages
...hill, a 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. v1 *"3* v- w ^ ; JV V* W tf^/W/- V"t #***# zo -z, *./£.} t,vyt.t, r ? V* ^ V" J* V it-> a.7t, t,<,.... | |
 | Daniel Tyerman, George Bennet - Missions - 1832 - 308 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste. 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. —... | |
 | Daniel Tyerman, George Bennet - Missions - 1832 - 312 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste. 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.... | |
 | F. B. Miller - Children's stories, English - 1833 - 220 pages
...given, Behind the cloud-topped hill an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...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." " They have strange... | |
 | Books - 1833 - 626 pages
...given, Beyond the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced. Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." The Mahomedan looks forward to a region of the most enchanting beauty, where he shall have his senses... | |
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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... 
