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" 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... "
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 64
by Joseph Warton - 1806
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The Philosophy of a Future State

Thomas Dick - Future life - 1836 - 306 pages
...an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, gome happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold, — And thinks, admitted to yon equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." port. Among the...
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A history of slavery and its abolition

Esther Copley - Antislavery movements - 1836 - 814 pages
...an humbler heaven, Some safer world, in depths of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." James Thomson, (born 1700, died 1748,)^ in his truly beautiful descriptive poem, " The Seasons," has...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depths of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...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...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depths of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...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...
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Principles of elocution

William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...Far as the solar walk, or Milky Way ; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst...
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The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text ...

Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the watry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends...
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News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness

Poetry - 1995 - 324 pages
...these pow'rs in one? ALEXANDER POPE / 1733 from An Essay on Man Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;...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...
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Literatur und Geschichte: Festschrift für Wulf Koepke zum 70. Geburtstag

Wulf Köpke - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 368 pages
...Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his Hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill an humbler heav'n, Some safer world in depth...behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.34 58 Barthold Heinrich Brockes übersetzte den "Essay on Man" bereits 1740 ins Deutsche. Zum...
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Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall

Pierre François - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 332 pages
...Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet, simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth...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...
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Inlets of the Soul: Contemporary Fiction in English and the Myth of the Fall

Pierre François - English fiction - 1999 - 342 pages
...Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet, simple Nature to his hope has giv'n. Behind the cloud- topt hill, an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth...waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, Xo fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold1 To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's...
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