 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 company.  L'essai sur l'homme - Sayfa 14Alexander Pope tarafından - 1821 - 207 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | William Oxberry - 1824 - 384 sayfa
...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 that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company."—POPE. HAPPENING, a few days ago, to take up a volume of Lord Erskine's speeches, I was... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 sayfa
...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...opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such ; Say, here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 sayfa
...thirst for gold. To be content 's 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 company. 4. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 sayfa
...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 company. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense* Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 sayfa
...Christians thirst for gold. To be, eontents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; lows hard and heavy, sueh as he Had lent, repaid with usury. Yet Talgol eompany. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy seale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against providenee ; Call imperfeetion... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 sayfa
...his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph't 6it; But thinks, admitted to that equal iky. mVj sew, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such; Say, here he... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 sayfa
...thirst for gold. 5 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 company. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | John WHITRIDGE - 1826 - 298 sayfa
...and lust, as mean and base as his own degradation — a ' He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that 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 sayfa
...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... | |
 | 1827 - 290 sayfa
...thirst for gold ! To be, content.s 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 company. ***** In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.... | |
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