 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.  The Port Folio - Page 2791811Full view - About this book
 | 1826 - 438 lehte
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 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 lehte
...Where slaves once more their native land behold, No flends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5 To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 lehte
...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...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 224 lehte
...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...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... | |
 | John WHITRIDGE - 1826 - 298 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1826 - 518 lehte
...every tribe places it in situations, and fills it with objects, most familiar and agreeable, ' And thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.' The Osages know nothing of canoes, and we have the best authority for saying, that there is not one in... | |
 | 1827 - 290 lehte
...hill, an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. ***** In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 lehte
...Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5. To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no angel's...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Prpvidence; Call imperfection... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 lehte
...Where slaves once more their native land behol, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. \ 5. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's...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 - 1828 - 264 lehte
...thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; 110 But thinks admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. ) . IV. Go wiser thou ! and in the scale of sense:, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
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