 | John Hayward - Church statistics - 1836 - 168 pages
...hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire j But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog will bear him company." Popi. The natives... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 pages
...the Solar Walk or Milky Way ; Yet simple nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topt bill, a humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods...desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire : Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depths of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depths of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...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... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...an humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...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... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 386 pages
....enough. This is the happiness of —' the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds' ' To BE, contents his natural desire; He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire.' This too, as the wise Paley has remarked, is a happiness independent of any particular outward gratification,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5. To Ic, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing,...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... | |
 | 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...seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." It would exceed the limits of this paper to enter into a... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold: To be, contents Ыв flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering His faithful dog shall hear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou ! and, in thy »cale of sense, Weigh thy... | |
 | P. Sadler - 1841 - 362 pages
...heaven; Some safer world, in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste (2), Where slaves once more their native land behold ,...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... | |
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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. 
