 | Books - 1833 - 626 pages
...the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced. Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." The Mahomedan looks forward to a region of the most enchanting beauty, where he shall have his senses... | |
 | Thomas Wirgman - Bible - 1834 - 582 pages
...the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced , Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more...fiends torment, no CHRISTIANS thirst for gold." To witness the complacency with which the High Priest descends the hundred steps of his sacred Temple,... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire : But thinks, admitted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, lOfi Where slaves once more their native land behold ;...desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; no But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. iv. Go, wiser thou... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the watry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; no But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou!... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; (Fr. Epistle I) 77 To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no Angel's...equal sky. His faithful dog shall bear him company. (Fr. Epistle I) 78 Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man.... | |
 | Pierre François - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 332 pages
...hill, an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man IN THE ART OF WILLIAM GOLDING, Bernard S. Oldsey and Stanley Weintraub... | |
 | Peter Martin - Pets - 2001 - 228 pages
...irreplaceable. There has not been a day since her death when I have not thought of her. I am content. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. — Alexander Pope -ino )!S!A jx JJUJPM suiij. Aq 'xsssns JSSM '^Jng jo aSeuiA siji ui 98ej}03 33j;3jddy... | |
 | Genealogy - 1909 - 1308 pages
...the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold. No friends torment, no Christian thirst for gold, To be, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; He thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Although others will... | |
 | Marcus Wood - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 772 pages
...deep an humble heav'n. Some safer world with depths of wood 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, He thinks, admitted to that equal sky. His injur'd wife will bear him company.'' He looks toward his... | |
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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,... 
