| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pągines
...given , Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be content 's his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pągines
...safer world in depth of woods embrae'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves onee r. \\Tiy has not man a mieroseopie eontents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that... | |
| John Mason Good - 1826 - 454 pągines
...Wm. Penn, vol. ip 391. 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. The tradition which describes the hades, or invisible world, as seated in the clouds, was chiefly common... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pągines
...hill a 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. 5. I'o BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted... | |
| John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pągines
...the cloud-topt hill, an humbler Heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some liappier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No Sends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pągines
...Where slaves once more their native land behold, No flends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5 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. Go, wiser thou !... | |
| 1827 - 290 pągines
...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,...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. ***** In pride,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pągines
...humbler heav'n* : Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd', Some happier island in the ivatr'y waste' ; Where slaves once more their native land...No fiends torment', no Christians thirst for gold*. 5 To BE', contents his natural desirs* ; He asks no angel's wing', no seraph'B fire* : But thinks',... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 pągines
...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 wing, no seraph's fire : But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou !... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 pągines
...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 wing, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou ! and... | |
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