 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
 | Thomas Dick - Future life - 1836 - 306 pages
...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... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...ALEXANDER POPE. Some safer world in depths 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. Essay on Man. God fix'd it certain, that, whatever day Makea man a slave,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...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, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...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, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...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 for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...humbler hcav'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. 5. To Ic, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's... | |
 | 1838 - 1014 pages
...humble heaven : Some safer world, in depths 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." Marttlloumess, or wonder, is situated immediately above the organ of ideality.... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1850 - 516 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depths of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste j 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... | |
 | George Combe - 1839 - 410 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 idea is that as this faculty exists and relates to futurity, the futurity... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1839 - 218 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." The Trochee is a foot consisting of two syllables, the first long and... | |
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