 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...once more their native land behold ; No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To BE content's his natural desire; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. f POPE has indulged himself in but few digressions in this piece ; this is one of the most poetical.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...an 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...giv'n, Behind the clond-topt hill, an humhler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods etuhrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land hehold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To he content's his natural desire ; He asks... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...given, Behind the clond-topt hill an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense* Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...giv'n, Behind the cloud-top'd hill, an humbler hcav'u ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, .Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be content's his natural desire ; Hi; asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...cloud-top'd hill, an humbler lieav'a ; Some safer world in depth of woods enibrac'd, Some happier island iu the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native...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... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Abolitionists - 1808 - 596 pages
...an humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods ernbrac'd, Some happier island in the watry waste, W.here slaves once more their native land behold,...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." Thomson also, in his Seasons, marks this traffic as destructive and cruel, introducing the well-known... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...hill, an humbler heav'nf 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, nor Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler Heavei f Some safer world in depth of woods embracM, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; 119 But thinks admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou!... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Bible - 1810 - 504 pages
...an humbler hcav*n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier inland in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. PRINCE OF WALES CONVERTED !! An Editor ofa Baltimore paper says," that an enlightened and philanthropic... | |
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His soul, proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; 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,... 
