 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...  Lectures on Phrenology - Pagina 208door George Combe - 1839 - 389 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1850 - 510 pagina’s
...hope has given Behind the cloud-topped hill an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depths of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be — contents bis natural desire : He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted... | |
 | James Backhouse - 1831 - 400 pagina’s
...States men ; she alluded to these lines of Pope, in relation to the imaginary Heaven of Indians. ' Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment; no Christians thirst for gold.1 " -And added, in reference to some who profess to be Christians : " They do indeed thirst after... | |
 | Robert Ainslie - 1831 - 290 pagina’s
...milky way ; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, Behind yon cloud-topt hill, an humble heaven,Some safer world, in depth of woods embraced ; Some happier island in the watery waste, "f Cato was right in his conclusion, that ideas so strongly impressed by nature, point out an hereafter.... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 pagina’s
...given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold! To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted... | |
 | Daniel Tyerman, George Bennet - 1832 - 308 pagina’s
...is so captivating : — " Yet simple Nature to his hopes 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. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted... | |
 | George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - 1832 - 122 pagina’s
...hill, a 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. v1 *"3* v- w ^ ; JV V* W tf^/W/- V"t #***# zo -z, *./£.} t,vyt.t, r ? V* ^ V" J* V it-> a.7t, t,<,.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pagina’s
...humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 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 wings, no seraph•s fire; 110 But thinks, admitted... | |
 | Daniel Tyerman, George Bennet - 1832 - 312 pagina’s
...is so captivating : — " Yet simple Nature to his hopes 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. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; , \ But thinks, admitted... | |
 | Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 542 pagina’s
...Yet simple nature to his hopes had given, Out of a cloud-capp'd hill, a humbler heaven ; Some untamed World in depth of woods embraced— Some happier Island in the watery waste — And where, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful Dog shall bear him company. In a word, by thus... | |
 | 1833 - 626 pagina’s
...the solar walk or milky way; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, Beyond the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods...fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." The Mahomedan looks forward to a region of the most enchanting beauty, where he shall have his senses refined... | |
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