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. Memoir of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Hemans - Page 195by Harriet Mary Browne - 1840 - 317 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Johnson - 1842 - 296 pages
...comes to convey the prince to Swarga, or INDRA'S heaven; but YUDHISHTHIRA refuses to go thither, unless admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company ; and INDRA is obliged to comply. The Eighteenth Book, the ' Swargárohana, introduces YUDHISHTHIRA... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Hemans - 1844 - 376 pages
...supposed to be in the Ettrick country. " A few days afterwards, I walked with him through the Bezel's Cleugh; a name which he derives from the German Hexe,...have in the other world ! there would be Maida and Nimrod, and Spicy and Ginger ; ' black spirits and white, blue spirits and grey.' ' He told me that... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But IV. Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against Providence; Call imperfection... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 352 pages
...life in the habitations of the dead. We comprehend the gradual expansion of that feeling, from which the " poor Indian," who " thinks, admitted to that...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company," is buried with his bow and arrow, and with the companion of his hunter life. Hence, among the Hindoos,... | |
| Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 pages
...thirst for gold. To be content 's 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. As men, in forming their first impressions concerning the invisible world, suppose they shall feel... | |
| 1845 - 486 pages
...this said august personage generally considers himself entitled to : I am not exactly of the opinion of the poor Indian, " Who thinks, admitted to that...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company : " but I do consider that no greater right was awarded to me to ill-use an animal than was given to... | |
| 1845 - 486 pages
...this saiJ august per-sonage generally considers himself entitled to : I am not exactly of the opinion of the poor Indian, " Who thinks, admitted to that...equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company:" but I do consider that no greater right was awarded to me to ill-use an animal than was given to the... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 pages
...vol. vi. p. 251. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire j But thinks admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Pope. Essay on Man, Epistle 1. But as true wit is nothing else but a similitude in ideas, so is false... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...thirst for gold. 5. 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... | |
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