 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...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, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves 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... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 454 pages
...vol. ip 391. Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watry waste ; Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. The tradition which describes the hades, or invisible world, as seated... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...heav'n* : Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd', Some happier island in the ivatr'y waste' ; Where slaves once more their native land behold', No fiends torment', no Christians thirst for gold*. 5 To BE', contents his natural desirs* ; He asks no angel's wing', no... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...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, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold ! To be, content.s his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's... | |
 | Richard Henry Lee - United States - 1829 - 416 pages
...humbler heaven, Some safer world, in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold ; No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be content 'a his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...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, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold! To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's... | |
 | George Combe - Human information processing - 1830 - 732 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world, in depth of woods embraced ; Some happier island in the watery waste ; Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." The organ is established. 18. — WONDER. THIS organ is situated immediately... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, , the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph... | |
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Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians... 
