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...the cloud-topp'd hill an humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." Thomson also, in his Seasons, marks this traffic as destructive and cruel, introducing the wellknown...

...the cloud-capt hill, an humbler heaven, Some safer world, in depths of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." James Thomson, (born 1700, died 1748,)^ in his truly beautiful descriptive poem, " The Seasons," has...

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...an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the watry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold ! To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; no But thinks, admitted to...

...Beyond the cloud top'd hill, a humble heaven, Some safer world in depths of woods embrace, Some distant Island in the watery waste. Where slaves once more their native land behold, Nor fiends torment, no Christian thirsts for gold." Pope. My father often spoke of that country, while...

...hill an humbler heav'n, Some safer world in depth of woods 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.34 58 Barthold Heinrich Brockes übersetzte den "Essay on Man" bereits 1740 ins Deutsche. Zum...

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...deep an humble heav'n. Some safer world with depths of wood 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, He thinks, admitted to that equal sky. His injur'd wife will bear him company.'' He looks toward his...

...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...