 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...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. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense* Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, eontents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, f him but blows ; Blows hard and heavy, sueh as he Had lent, repaid with usury. Yet Talgol eompany. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy seale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against providenee ; Call imperfeetion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 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 thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | John WHITRIDGE - 1826 - 298 pages
...world of cruelty and lust, as mean and base as his own degradation — a ' He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky His faithful dog shall bear him company.' And, my brethren, a heaven so unworthy and so sensual, is a very different hope from that which Christian... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...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 in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | 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
...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 that 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...slavesonce more their native landbehol No fiends torment, no Christian thirsts for gold, To be content's his natural desire; He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, Hi's faithful dog shall bear him company. Hope humbly then ; witli trembling pinions & Wait the great... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
