 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 pages
....... 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 company. SECTION IV. OF THE GROUPING Or SPEECH. THE idea involved in the Grouping of Speech, requires for its... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin French - America - 1846 - 246 pages
...watery waste. To be content, his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire, But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Some of the earlier historians represent the Natchez as worshippers of the sun, or worshippers of fire... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Industries - 1847 - 640 pages
...watery waste. To be content, his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire, But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Some of the earlier historians represent the Natchez as worshipper* of the sun, or worshippers of fire;... | |
 | 1847 - 614 pages
...hopes not only to meet his human friends, but where, in the simplicity of his soul, — " He thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Such are a few of the arguments in favour of this doctrine of " recognition in heaven." And I shall... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1901 - 502 pages
...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 company, t Im vierten abschnitte fährt der dichter fort (v. 113): >Go, wiser thoul and in thy scale of sense,... | |
 | Johann J. Winckelmann - History - 1956 - 632 pages
...the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind . . . But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Vgl. auch Nr. 899; 529. W. hat Popes Gedicht, eigener Aussage nach (Nr. 488), einst fast auswendig... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...gold ! To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; no 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 thy Opinion against Providence; Call Imperfection... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Epistle I) 77 To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, rosperity, That so live here as ye should never hence. Remember deat (Fr. Epistle I) 78 Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man.... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1712 pages
...believe with the Indian of Pope, whose "untutored mind" can only picture to himself a heaven where ". . . admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." * Space fails us to present the speculative views of certain ancient and mediaeval occultists upon... | |
 | Pierre François - English fiction - 1999 - 342 pages
...for gold1 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 company. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man IN THE ART OF WILLIAM GOLDING, Bernard S. Oldsey and Stanley Weintraub... | |
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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 company. 
