 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - 1857 - 302 ページ
...Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by Heaven. Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher death, and God adore ! What... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 ページ
...play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given. That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven : Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 ページ
...? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven ; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall ; Atoms... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 ページ
...Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Ob blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven : Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 ページ
...? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven : Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms... | |
 | 1822 - 284 ページ
...Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O blindness to the future! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 ページ
...play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. leasure sickens into pain ; * joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tie yo mark'd by Heaven : Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 ページ
...be expected, nor is it even possible in the natural course of things. Pope's striking exclamation, " Oh ! blindness to the future kindly given, That each may fill the circuit mark'd by Heaven!" L hardly applies here ; namely, to evils that stare us in the face, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 ページ
...be expected, nor is it even possible in the natural course of things. Pope's striking exclamation, " Oh ! blindness to the future kindly given, That each may fill the circuit mark'd by Heaven!" hardly applies here; namely, to evils that stare us in the face, and that... | |
 | James I (king of Scotland.) - 1825 - 306 ページ
...? Fleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Oh blindness ! to the future kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven. Kssay on Man. XV. Thus stant thy confort in ' unsekernesse, And wantis it, y* suld... | |
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... their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? 
