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
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 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,...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.... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 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. 4. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, eontents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks,...to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him eompany. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy seale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against providenee ; Call imperfeetion... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural 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 thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
...embrac'd, Some happier island in the wat'ry waste ; WherS slaves once more their native land behold, But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful...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. - ;... | |
| John WHITRIDGE - 1826 - 298 pages
...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... | |
| 1826 - 518 pages
...every tribe places it in situations, and fills it with objects, most familiar and agreeable, ' And thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.' The Osages know nothing of canoes, and we have the best authority for saying, that there is not one... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5. To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks,...and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Prpvidence; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such; Say here he gives too little, there too much.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...land, behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5 To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks,...company. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, j Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such ; Say here he gives... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 258 pages
...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,...His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thon ! and in thy scale of sense, I Weigh thy opinion against Providen.ce ; ' Call imperfection what... | |
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