 | Esther Copley - 1839 - 674 pages
...hope has giv'n, Beyond the cloud-capt hill, an humbler heaven, Some safer world, in depths of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste,...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." James Thomson, (born 1700, died 1748,) in his truly beautiful descriptive poem, " The Seasons," has... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1839 - 160 pages
...utter, and to argue freely, above all liberties ALEXANDER POPE. Some safer world in depths of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. Essay on Man. God fixed it certain, that, whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away.... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1850 - 516 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depths of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste j 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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1839 - 218 pages
...short and the second long. This foot is admitted into every place of the line. Example, all Iambics ; "Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." The Trochee is a foot consisting of two syllables, the first long and the second short. Example ; "... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the watry 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; no But thinks, admitted... | |
 | George Copway - 1997 - 276 pages
...Beyond the cloud top'd hill, a humble heaven, Some safer world in depths of woods embrace, Some distant Island in the watery waste. Where slaves once more their native land behold, Nor fiends torment, no Christian thirsts for gold." Pope. My father often spoke of that country, while... | |
 | Wulf Köpke - 1998 - 368 pages
...hill an humbler heav'n, 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.34 58 Barthold Heinrich Brockes übersetzte den "Essay on Man" bereits 1740 ins Deutsche. Zum... | |
 | Pierre François - 1999 - 332 pages
...hill, an humbler heav'n; 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! To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted... | |
 | Marcus Wood - 2003 - 772 pages
...deep an humble heav'n. Some safer world with depths of wood 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, He thinks, admitted to that equal sky. His injur'd wife will bear him company.'' He looks toward his... | |
 | John A. Richardson - 2004 - 210 pages
...Indian' might aspire: 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! (Essay on Man, 1 .99-108) These lines identify the 'poor Indian' as a modern slave. His conception... | |
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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... 
