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 fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. My Study Windows - Page 418by James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 433 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1826 - 518 pages
...every tribe places it in situations, and fills it with objects, most familiar and agreeable, ' And thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.' The Osages know nothing of canoes, and we have the best authority for saying, that there is not one... | |
| Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...hill, an 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,...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. ***** In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.... | |
| Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...Where slaves once more their native land behol, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. \ 5. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...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...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Prpvidence; Call imperfection... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; 110 But thinks admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. ) . IV. Go wiser thou ! and in the scale of sense:, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
| English essays - 1828 - 714 pages
...the weapons accompany the soula of the heroes. And Pope gives a similar creed to his Indian — ' Who thinks — admitted to that equal sky — His faithful dog shall bear him company.' Essay on Man. "Most religions have an allegory of a river to be crossed in the transit from this to... | |
| Richard Henry Lee - United States - 1829 - 416 pages
...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 fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, J 896 LIFE OF Mr. Pope is speaking of the South-American ; but our Indians hav*e got the idea that... | |
| Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1829 - 334 pages
...John, xi. 26, 26. Indian, in point of prospects of futurity. The poor untutored, despised Indian, " Thinks, admitted to that equal sky, " His faithful dog shall bear him company." While many of those who pity the stupidity of the Indian, and sneer at the credulity of the Christian,... | |
| Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1830 - 244 pages
...slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold, i. To BK, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing,...But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful clog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...fiends tormenf , no Christians thirst for gold* 5 To BE', contents his natural desire * ; He asks nn angel's wing', no seraph's fire : But thinks', admitted...equal sky', His faithful dog shall bear him company*. Go', wiser thou' ! and in thy scale of sense', Weigjj thy opinion against Providence* ; Call imperfection... | |
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