 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...thirst for 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 what... | |
 | Isaac Dowd Williamson - Christianity - 1836 - 264 pages
...true devotion, hopes for an humble heaven where "No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold; And thinks admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." With thig he is satisfied upon that head. His pleasures are mostly physical, and he looks to the chase... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...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. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection... | |
 | Johann J. Winckelmann - History - 1956 - 632 pages
...ggff.: ,,Lo! 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
...thirst for 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 what... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...wind; (Fr. Epistle I) 77 To be, contents his natural desire; He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; and frail prosperity, 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 - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 332 pages
...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. 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
...of her. I am content. 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 -ino )!S!A jx JJUJPM suiij. Aq 'xsssns JSSM '^Jng jo aSeuiA siji ui 98ej}03 33j;3jddy... | |
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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. 
