 Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt 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, No fiends torment, no Christians...  The Bible and the people - Page 1671853Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | George Allen - 1843 - 56 pages
...safer world, in depth of woods embraced ; Some happier island, in the watery waste ; Where slaves onee more their native land behold ; No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.' It was not enough that Georgia had made her arrogated soil too hot for the Creeks and Cherokees, who,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...humbler heav'n , Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...heaven, Some safer world, in depth of woods cmbrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the watery 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 O 110 But thinks, admitted... | |
 | John Hayward - 1845 - 458 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...heaven; — Some safer world — in depth of wood embraced, Some happier island — in the watery waste; Where slaves, once more, their native land behold,...FIENDS torment — no CHRISTIANS thirst for gold. 451. SKIPS AND SLIDES. By closely observing the movements of the voice, when under the perfect command... | |
 | 1873 - 426 pages
...disappear altogether. The natives of Newfoundland have long ago retreated to the "happy hunting-grounds," Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. So, again, in Tasmania, not a trace remains of its once vigorous and unmeroue population; the black... | |
 | 1901 - 502 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...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... | |
 | Wulf Köpke - 1998 - 368 pages
...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
...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... | |
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