 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...  Der Mensch, ein philosophisches Gedicht - Pàgina 8per Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Esther Copley - 1839 - 674 pàgines
...humbler heaven, Some safer world, in depths of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." James Thomson, (born 1700, died 1748,) in his truly beautiful descriptive... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1839 - 262 pàgines
...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... | |
 | James Stanley Grimes - 1839 - 346 pàgines
...humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." Some persons have the organ about medium, and if, from extraordinary excitement,... | |
 | 1873 - 426 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...'. 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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