 | George Combe - 1839 - 410 pagine
...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." The idea is that as this faculty exists and relates to futurity, the futurity... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1850 - 516 pagine
...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... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1839 - 262 pagine
...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." Pope. The Trochee is a foot consisting of two syllables, the first long... | |
 | 1873 - 426 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1901 - 502 pagine
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pagine
...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... | |
 | Wulf Köpke - 1998 - 368 pagine
...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... | |
 | Pierre François - 1999 - 332 pagine
...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... | |
 | Marcus Wood - 2003 - 772 pagine
...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.''... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pagine
...'. Some fafer world in depth of woods embiac'd, Some happier ifland in the wat'ry wafte, Where Haves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Chriftians thirft for gold. To BE content's his natural de-fire, He afks no angel's wing, no feraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to... | |
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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... 
