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 ... - الصفحة 281بواسطة Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 302عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Alexander Pope - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 80
...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 - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...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 - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...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 - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...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 - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...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... | |
| 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...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 - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...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... | |
| 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 656
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 86
...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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