...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...

...of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watry waste, Where slaves once more their native lands behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for...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.'* In this passage...

...might aspire: 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! (Essay on Man, 1 .99-108) These lines identify the 'poor Indian' as a modern slave. His conception...

...Copway leaves out the concluding lines of this stanza: "He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire; / But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, / His faithful dog shall bear him company" (3.110—12). He would have had to edit. Pope writes about the order of the English Enlightenment universe,...

...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.6* In this passage Pope links the scientist's hubris with the Indian's naivete, chiding both...

...island in the watry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, nor 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. (i, 99-112) This passage...