 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...(o his hope has given , Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery...No 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...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. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire « But thinks, admitted... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...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 To be, eontents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1826 - 454 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...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 - 1827 - 262 pages
...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',... | |
 | 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, No 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...to his hope has given. Behind the cloud topp'd hill, an humbler heaven j Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; 110 But thinks admitted... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1828 - 540 pages
...uiven Beyond the clund-topt hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste ; Where slaves...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. The tradition which describes the hade?, or invisible world, as seated m the clouds, was chiefly common... | |
 | Richard Henry Lee - 1829 - 840 pages
...to his hopes hath given, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill an humbler heaven, Some safer world, in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be content 's his natural desire, He nsks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; Bat thinks, admitted... | |
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Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has... 
