 | Harriet Mary Browne - 1840 - 302 pages
...country will always sleep towards the west, and so on. He spoke of dogs, and of the poor Indian, who thinks — 'Admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company!' He laughed, and said, ' What a train I should have in the other world ! there would be Maida and NimI... | |
 | Henry Bacon - Consolation - 1840 - 228 pages
...it is a touching form of the same faith in the Indian to which Pope alluded when he wrote — " And thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." " If nature teach thus, it is the God of nature that so instructs ; if religion inculcate it, it is... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans - 1840 - 378 pages
...country will always sleep towards the west, and so on. He spoke of dogs, and of the poor Indian, who thinks — 'Admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company!' He laughed, and said, ' What a train I should have in the other world ! there would be Maida and NimI... | |
 | P. Sadler - 1841 - 362 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. POPB. WE ALL DEPEND... | |
 | Johann J. Winckelmann - History - 1956 - 632 pages
...ggff.: ,,Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind . . . But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Vgl. auch Nr. 899; 529. W. hat Popes Gedicht, eigener Aussage nach (Nr. 488), einst fast auswendig... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...thirst for gold ! To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; no 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...hears him in the wind; (Fr. Epistle I) 77 To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no Angel's wing, nce In worldly joy and frail prosperity, That so 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.... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1712 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 332 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. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man IN THE ART OF WILLIAM GOLDING, Bernard S. Oldsey and Stanley Weintraub... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - Humor - 2010 - 438 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
