 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 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... | |
 | Thomas Wirgman - Bible - 1834 - 582 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...fiends torment, no CHRISTIANS thirst for gold." To witness the complacency with which the High Priest descends the hundred steps of his sacred Temple,... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 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...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire : But thinks, admitted... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1834 - 492 pages
...an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods emhrac'd, Some happier island in the wat'ry waste ; Where slaves once more their native land behold. No fiends torment, no Christiana thirst for gold. The tradition which describes the hades, or invisible world, as seated... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, lOfi Where slaves once more their native land behold ;...desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; no But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. iv. Go, wiser thou... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the watry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; no But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou!... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; (Fr. Epistle I) 77 ath of Queen Elizabeth 1 O Ye that put your trust and confidence In worldly jo But thinks, admitted to that equal sky. His faithful dog shall bear him company. (Fr. Epistle I) 78... | |
 | George Copway - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 276 pages
...Beyond the cloud top'd hill, a humble heaven, Some safer world in depths of woods embrace, Some distant Island in the watery waste. Where slaves once more their native land behold, Nor fiends torment, no Christian thirsts for gold." Pope. My father often spoke of that country, while... | |
 | Wulf Köpke - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 368 pages
...hill 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.34 58 Barthold Heinrich Brockes übersetzte den "Essay on Man" bereits 1740 ins Deutsche. Zum... | |
 | Pierre François - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 332 pages
...hill, 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,...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,... | |
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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... 
