 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 Seiten
...heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 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'9 fire; no But thinks admitted to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 Seiten
...humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be content's his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; 110 But thinks, admitted... | |
 | 1805 - 378 Seiten
...heav'p. Some safer world with depths of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watry waste, W here slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold : He thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His mjur'd wife will bear him company ; He looks towards his... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 Seiten
...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...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 to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 Seiten
...giv'n, Behind the cloud-top'd hill, an humbler hcav'u ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, .Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be content's his natural desire ; Hi; asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 Seiten
...cloud-top'd hill, an humbler lieav'a ; Some safer world in depth of woods enibrac'd, Some happier island iu the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native...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 to... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1808 - 596 Seiten
...an humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods ernbrac'd, Some happier island in the watry waste, W.here slaves once more their native land behold,...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." Thomson also, in his Seasons, marks this traffic as destructive and cruel, introducing the well-known... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1810 - 504 Seiten
...an humbler hcav*n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier inland in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. PRINCE OF WALES CONVERTED !! An Editor ofa Baltimore paper says," that an enlightened and philanthropic... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 Seiten
...always to be, bless'd. The soul, .uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold 1 To be, contents his natural desire, But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, He asks no angel's wing,... | |
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His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, ' Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery... 
