 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...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 wings, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.... | |
 | 1850 - 510 pages
...their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be — contents bis natural desire : He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." It would exceed the limits of this paper to enter into a description of the varieties of the dog; but... | |
 | Karl von Baron Miltie - Germany - 1831 - 446 pages
...who would hesitate between his cheerless condition and the wild hopes of the untutored Indian, " Who thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company?" Heartwell clung to his creed of friendship in opposition to the evidence of his own senses. One by... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; (Fr. Epistle I) 77 To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no Angel's...equal sky. His faithful dog shall bear him company. (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 - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 332 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - Humor - 2010 - 438 pages
...in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; . . . But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Epistle i, lines 99 -102, 111-12 Another parody of these lines is found at "Severally." Hybrid ] For... | |
 | Peter Martin - Pets - 2001 - 228 pages
...irreplaceable. There has not been a day since her death when I have not thought of her. I am content. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. — Alexander Pope -ino )!S!A jx JJUJPM suiij. Aq 'xsssns JSSM '^Jng jo aSeuiA siji ui 98ej}03 33j;3jddy... | |
 | Genealogy - 1909 - 1308 pages
...the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold. No friends torment, no Christian thirst for gold, To be, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; He thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Although others will... | |
 | Cordula Neis - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 680 pages
...Selbstgenügsamkeit und der Verzicht auf ein höheres Streben kommen bei Pope deutlich zum Ausdruck: To be, Contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admit let to that equal sky, His fuit h tul dog shall bear him company. (Pope, Essay on man, Epistel... | |
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. 
