 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 fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him...  Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ... - Page 281by Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...Christians thirst for gold. KSSAY ON MAM. To le, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, TOO seraph's fire, But thinks, admitted to that equal...company. Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense, Tfejgh thy opinion agains* Providence; Call imperfection what thou fancs'st such,« Say, here he gives... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. IV. business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturb'd...death, the night. My house a cottage more Than pal fancy'st such ; Say, here he gives too little, there too much • Destroy all creatures for thy sport... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To BE, contents his natural desire ; lie asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire : But. thinks,...such ; Say here he gives too little, there too much. — In pride, in reas'ning- pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold, To BE. contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel*s wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that...such, Say here he gives too little, there too much. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit the sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 254 pages
...behold , íío fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold. , To Be , contents his natural desire , He asks no Angel's wing , no Seraph's fire ; But thinks...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... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1821 - 378 pages
...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 fire, But thinks,...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Pof E. HAPPENING, a few days ago, to take up a volume of Lord Erskine's speeches, I was peculiarly... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 716 pages
...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 fire ; But thinks,...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company — we are carried back to the time of Augustus and the Elysian Fields, where the souls of the blessed... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...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 fire ; But thinks,...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... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 656 pages
...land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be content 'a his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire, But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shalt bear him company." POPE. HAPPENING, a few days ago, to take up a volume of Lord Erskine's speeches,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...for gold. To be, content's his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; 110 IV. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh...opinion against providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such, Say, here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport... | |
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