 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 258 Seiten
...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...Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such ; Say here he gives too little, there too much.— 6 IB pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 Seiten
...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 Seiten
...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. 4. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence; Call imperfection... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...Christians thirst for gold. To be, eontents 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 eompany. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy seale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against providenee ; Call imperfeetion... | |
 | Henry Matthews - 1825 - 448 Seiten
...takes a delightful hold on the imagination, in the simple creed of the untutored Indian, Who chinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Without attempting, however, to raise the mysterious veil which is drawn over the lot of the lower... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 Seiten
...his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph't 6it; But thinks, admitted to that equal iky. His faithful dog shall bear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sew, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such; Say, here he... | |
 | John WHITRIDGE - 1826 - 298 Seiten
...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 - 1826 - 286 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 Seiten
...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...Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such, Say, here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 316 Seiten
...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. Gn, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
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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. 
