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 8by Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1850 - 510 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. To be — contents bis natural desire : He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's... | |
| George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - English language - 1832 - 122 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. v1 *"3* v- w ^ ; JV V* W tf^/W/- V"t #***# zo -z, *./£.} t,vyt.t, r ?... | |
| Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...humbler heaven; 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 for gold! To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's... | |
| F. B. Miller - Children's stories, English - 1833 - 220 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... | |
| James Flamank - 1833 - 436 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 Mahomedan looks forward to a region of the most enchanting beauty,... | |
| Books - 1833 - 626 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 Mahomedan looks forward to a region of the most enchanting beauty,... | |
| Thomas Wirgman - Bible - 1834 - 582 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 witness the complacency with which the High Priest descends the hundred... | |
| Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 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. 5. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, lOfi 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... | |
| Esther Copley - Antislavery movements - 1836 - 814 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... | |
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