 | Zachary Macaulay - 1827 - 416 ページ
...our Creator in assigning ignorance to the brute creation as a mitigation of their condition : — ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." This was the passage which doubtless... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 ページ
...state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, ' Had he...mark'd by Heaven ; Who sees with equal eye, as God of alj, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms on systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst and... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 ページ
...creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed their present slate: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer...below! The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Had be thy reason, would he skip and play • Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 ページ
...creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know; Or who could suffer...to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. 10... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 ページ
...All but the page prescrib'd', their present state* ; From brutes' what men*, from men' what spirit* know*; Or who could suffer being here below* ? The...to-day', Had he thy reason', would he skip and play' ? Pleag'd to the lasf , he crops the flow'ry food', And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood*.... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 ページ
...creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men, what spirits know Or who could suffer...to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O... | |
 | Edward Young, William Danby - 1832 - 306 ページ
...fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From beasts what men, from men what angels know, Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb...to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the luscious food, And licks the hand that's rais'd to shed his blood."... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 ページ
...present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below T The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. 2. Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by heaven ; Who... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 394 ページ
...our ear, we never examine it but with undiminished admiration. " The lamb, thy riot dooms to hleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play...he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 ページ
...man for the sake of his present enjoyment: but this is rashly grounded on the supposition POPE. I. B The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O, blindness to the future ! kindly given, 85 That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven ; Who... | |
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, 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 today, Had he thy reason, would... 
