 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...  Der Mensch, ein philosophisches Gedicht - Page 6by Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Esther Copley - Antislavery movements - 1839 - 648 pages
...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... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1839 - 248 pages
...short and the second long. This foot is admitted into every place of the line. Example, all Iambics. " Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no christians thirst for gold." Pope. The Trochee is a foot consisting of two syllables, the first long... | |
 | James Stanley Grimes - Phrenology - 1839 - 320 pages
...humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth 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." Some persons have the organ about medium, and if, from extraordinary excitement,... | |
 | Finance - 1873
...disappear altogether. The natives of Newfoundland have long ago retreated to the "happy hunting-grounds," Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. So, again, in Tasmania, not a trace remains of its once vigorous and unmeroue... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1901
...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 - Poetry - 1963 - 850 pages
...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 torment, no Christians thirst for gold ! To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's... | |
 | Wulf Köpke - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 364 pages
...humbler heav'n, 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.34 58 Barthold Heinrich Brockes übersetzte den "Essay on Man" bereits 1740... | |
 | Pierre François - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 321 pages
...humbler heav'n; 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! To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's... | |
 | Voltaire, David Wootton - 2000 - 190 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 wings, no seraph's... | |
 | Marcus Wood - History - 2003 - 704 pages
...humble heav'n. Some safer world with depths of wood 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, He thinks, admitted to that equal sky. His injur'd wife will bear him company.''... | |
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