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 ... - Σελίδα 281των Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 302 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 σελίδες
...land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst tor gold. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire : But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, Hie faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thpu ! and in thy scale oi sense, Wi'tgh thy opinion... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 σελίδες
...Himself alone high heav'n's peculiar care, Alone made happy when he will, and where ? VOI.. III. I) 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... | |
| John Gabriel Stedman - 1813 - 550 σελίδες
...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...of sense " Weigh thy opinion against Providence." For For my part I must say, with Socrates, that this kind of CHAP. XV • poverty is alone the truest... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 σελίδες
...land behold, Wo 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, Weig^h thy opinion against Providenee ; Call imperfeetion... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 σελίδες
...natural desire, But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire, 110 Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy...providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such, 115 His faithful dog shall bear him company. Say, here he gives too little, there too much ; Destroy... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 σελίδες
...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 i hut equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of seose,... | |
| John Adams - 1816 - 352 σελίδες
...No fiends torment, no Christian thirst for gold. ' To be, contents his natural desire, "' He asks ne angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; " But thinks, admitted...equal sky, " His faithful dog shall bear him company. c( Go, wiser thou ! and, in thy scale of sense, *' Weigh thy opinion against Providence." For my part... | |
| 1817 - 314 σελίδες
...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. Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1817 - 290 σελίδες
...beheld, Mo ueuds torment, no Christians thirst Tor gold, To BK, contents his natural desire; Be abks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire : But thinks admitted to that equal sky, bis faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou I find in (by scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion... | |
| John Walker - 1819 - 734 σελίδες
...industry. With thèse most authors steal their woiks, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. Pope. But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Pope, f ECE, See EASE. IEF. Grief, chief, ßef, thief, brief, belief, relief, etc. Perfect rhymes,... | |
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