 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...thousand years ago. III. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men...he skip and play? 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...worshipped In ancient Egypt under the name ot Apis, \ IH. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book e/f fate. All but the page prescribed, their present state...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 ? Pleased to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...late, or here or there ? The blest to-day, is as completely so As who began a thousand years ago. 3. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate,...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 ? Pleas'd to the... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...one can never examine it, but with the same admiration, " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd...And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood." After having paused over such fine verses, may we admit the fonjecture, that the image might first... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...states From brutes what men , i'rom men what spirits. ( know, Or who could suffer being here below ?' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...skip and play?' Pleas'd to the last , he crops the flr>w'iy food , And licks the hand just rais'ci to shed his blood. Oh bliudness to the future! kindly... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...malheureux ? Quand un Fran^ais & un Anglais pensent de meme, il faut bien qu'ils ayent raison."* ( • 5. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. f The tenderness of this striking image, and particularly the circumstance in the last line, has an... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being bete below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flgw'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer heing here helow? The lamh thy riot dooms to hleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ?...flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his hlood. Oh ! hlindness to the future ! kindly gtv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd hy Heav'n... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 pages
...ear, we never examine it but with undiminished admiration. " The lamb, thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd...he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...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...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... | |
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed 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. 
