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 to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him... Essay on man, and The universal prayer - Página 5por Alexander Pope - 1860 - 47 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 páginas
...But thjnks admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou I and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'sf such ; Say, here he gives too little, there too much: Destroy al| creatures for thy sport... | |
| William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 páginas
...Heav'n in fault. 1. 69. As he proceeds, he still applies his reasoning to the fame Men: Go - — p and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy 'st such • Say, here he gives too little, there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport... | |
| William Warburton - 1811 - 444 páginas
...power, and end in the highest impiety, in an attempt to degrade the God of Heaven, and assume his place. Go wiser thou, and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence : Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if Man's unhappy, God's unjust; If Man alone... | |
| William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 páginas
...power, and end in the highest impiety, in an attempt to degrade the God of Heaven, and assume his place. Go wiser thou, and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence : Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if Man's unhappy, God's unjust ; If Man alone... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 páginas
...equal sky, Hie faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thpu ! and in thy scale oi sense, Wi'tgh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection...; Say here he gives too little, there too much.— In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...VOI.. III. I) But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. IV. Go, wiser thou ! and, in thy scale of sense, Weigh...opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such, 1 15 Say, Here he gives too little, there too much : Destroy all creatures for thy sport... | |
| John Gabriel Stedman - 1813 - 550 páginas
...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 against Providence." For For my part I must say, with Socrates, that this kind of CHAP. XV • poverty is alone the truest... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...natural desire, But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire, 110 Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy...providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such, 115 His faithful dog shall bear him company. Say, here he gives too little, there too much ; Destroy... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 páginas
...His faithful dog shall bear him company. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of seose, Weigh thycpinibn against providence; Call imperfection what thou fanciest...such, Say here he gives too little, there too much. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride... | |
| John Adams - 1816 - 352 páginas
...seraph's fire ; " But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, " His faithful dog shall bear him company. c( Go, wiser thou ! and, in thy scale of sense, *' Weigh thy opinion against Providence." For my part I must say, with Socrates, that thi> kind of poverty is alone the truest kind of riches... | |
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