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... National Preceptor - Página 253por Jesse Olney - 1845 - 336 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 páginas
...seraph's fire ; 110 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...such ; Say, here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet say, if man's unhappy, God's unjust : If man alone... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...once more their native 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...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...onee more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, eontents Talgol, mortal foe to eows, Never got aught of him...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 páginas
...slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5. I'o BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's...Say here he gives too little, there too much.—' t. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies ;... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 224 páginas
...The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. 5. To BE, content" his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's...such; Say here he gives too little, there too much.— 6.In pride, in rcas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies Pride... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 268 páginas
...embrac'd, Some happier island in the wat'ry waste ; WherS slaves once more their native land behold, But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful...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, John Walker - 1826 - 314 páginas
...happier island in the wat'ry waste ; Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends toiment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5. To be, contents...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. I Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, » Weigjh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
| John WHITRIDGE - 1826 - 298 páginas
...to a world of luxury or a world of cruelty and lust, as mean and base as his own degradation — a ' He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks,...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 páginas
...teacher death; and God adore. What future bliss he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thv blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast:...and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Prpvidence; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such; Say here he gives too little, there too much.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 páginas
...embrac'd. Some happier island in the wat'ry waste . Where slaves once more their native land behol, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold....too much. — 6. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our errour liA; All quit thejf sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is. aiming at the blest abodes... | |
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