 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,...  Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism - Page 226by James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824
...milky way ; Yet simple Nature to his hope hath given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven — Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst... | |
 | Benjamin Constant - Polytheism - 1824 - 4 pages
...Magaz. II, 744(2) 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 wat'ry waste. POPE. (3) LEVAILLANT , Prem. voy. en Afrique. servitude n'a que des espérances plus... | |
 | Benjamin Constant - Polytheism - 1824
...?44(2) Simple nature to his hope has givcn , Behiud the cloud topt hill , an humblcr hcaven , Somc safer world, in depth of woods embraced Some happier Island in the wat'ry wastc. (3) LEVAILLANT, Prem. roy. eu Afrique. POPE. (4) ROEMERS , Nachricht von der Kiistc Guinea... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 822 pages
...given, BehinQ the cloud-topt h,ll, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, ope' line, Or nanve land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents hitt natural desire,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 524 pages
...milky way ; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825
...milky way ; Yet simple Nature (o his hope has given , Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 562 pages
...safer world in depth of woods embrae'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves onee r. \\Tiy has not man a mieroseopie eontents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 304 pages
...Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends toiment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5. To be, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. I Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, » Weigjh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | John WHITRIDGE - 1826
...to a world of luxury or a world of cruelty and lust, as mean and base as his own degradation — a ' He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks,...equal sky His faithful dog shall bear him company.' And, my brethren, a heaven so unworthy and so sensual, is a very different hope from that which Christian... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826
...Wm. Penn, vol. ip 391. 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. The tradition which describes the hades, or invisible world, as seated in the clouds, was chiefly common... | |
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