 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
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...humbler Heavei f Some safer world in depth of woods embracM, 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 231 pages
...humbler heaven ; 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... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Bible - 1810 - 384 pages
...humbler hcav*n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier inland in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. PRINCE OF WALES CONVERTED !! An Editor ofa Baltimore paper says," that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812
...heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 356 pages
...humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd., 'Some happier island iu the wat'rv waste : Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst tor gold. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's... | |
 | John Gabriel Stedman - Guiana - 1813 - 550 pages
...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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814
...always to be, bless'd. The soul, .uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold 1 To be, contents his natural desire, But thinks, admitted to that equal... | |
 | English poetry - 1817
...humbler heav'n; 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... | |
 | James Lindsay - Dissenters, Religious - 1818 - 520 pages
...humbler heaven i 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 tor gold. for fov an evil of such magnitude and extent— if multitudes of the human... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1821 - 280 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... | |
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