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... Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ... - Página 281por Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 302 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert Chambers - 1830
...Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph 's % 1 s yҸ;Z Ah ^ R 3 m $0 2 1iN [ Ze Y E~fd zL/ & +k , Ϊ OfgB Happines», О Happiness ! опт being's end and aim, Good, Pleasure, Käse, Content, whate'er thy... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1132 páginas
...Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; (Fr. Epistle I) 77 To be, contents his natural desire; ut your trust and confidence In worldly joy and frail...live here as ye should never hence. Remember deat (Fr. Epistle I) 78 Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man.... | |
 | Ed Jewinski, Andrew Stubbs - 1992 - 158 páginas
...this very struggle" (xviii). The Mandel Case: Notes Towards a Poetics of Persecution ANDREW STUBBS Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy Opinion against Providence; Call 1mperfection what thou fancy'st such. Say, here he gives too little, there too much; Destroy all creatures... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - 1994 - 1506 páginas
...believe with the Indian of Pope, whose "untutored mind" can only picture to himself a heaven where ". . . admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." * Space fails us to present the speculative views of certain ancient and mediaeval occultists upon... | |
 | Pierre François - 1999 - 321 páginas
...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,...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man IN THE ART OF WILLIAM GOLDING, Bernard S. Oldsey and Stanley Weintraub... | |
 | Voltaire, David Wootton - 2000 - 190 páginas
...torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. 4. Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence; Call imperfection... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 2010 - 440 páginas
...in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; . . . But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Epistle i, lines 99 -102, 111-12 Another parody of these lines is found at "Severally." Hybrid ] For... | |
 | Peter Martin - 2001 - 206 páginas
...day since her death when I have not thought of her. I am content. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks,...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. — Alexander Pope -ino )!S!A jx JJUJPM suiij. Aq 'xsssns JSSM '^Jng jo aSeuiA siji ui 98ej}03 33j;3jddy... | |
 | 1909
...thirst for gold, To be, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; He thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Although others will tell you that some other Indian inspired Pope to write those lines, I believe... | |
 | Laura M. Stevens - 2004 - 264 páginas
...lands 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,...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.'* In this passage Pope links the scientist's hubris with the Indian's naivete, chiding both for reducing... | |
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