 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.  Letters to a Friend: On the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties, of the ... - Σελίδα 229των Olinthus Gregory - 1829Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 σελίδες
...for gold. 5. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wings, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 σελίδες
...thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural 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 ! and, in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1836 - 520 σελίδες
...suited to the wishes and the wants of man, not only places himself below the Christian, but below the Indian, in point of prospects of futurity. The poor untutored, despised Indian " Thinks, admitted to tbat equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." While many of those who pity the stupidity... | |
 | Isaac Dowd Williamson - 1836 - 264 σελίδες
...true devotion, hopes for an humble heaven where "No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold; And thinks admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." With thig he is satisfied upon that head. His pleasures are mostly physical, and he looks to the chase... | |
 | Truth - 1837 - 566 σελίδες
...Where slaves once more their native land behold. No fends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. And thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.' " Why the very brutes reproach men for their ingratitude to their God. My dog looks up to me as his... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | George Ensor - 1838 - 638 σελίδες
...burying of arms, dogs, &c. with the dead implies the same, according to the well-known couplet : But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, • His faithful dog shall bear him company. The Mahometans are altogether bodily in their notions of an hereafter, &c. Lord Brougham continues,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 σελίδες
...thirst for gold. 5. To Ic, 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... | |
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