 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...thousand years ago. III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page preserib'd, their present state : From brutes what men, from men...spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? I ad he thy reason -would he skip and play ? leaa'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, lid licks... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 pages
...exhibits. Even familiar as it is to our 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 ? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood."... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...and what sort of sounds it makes." — " Then, as to dancing," resumed the Poet, " what says Pope ? ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ?' Now, though I object to the word riot, since there is no such mighty excess in a leg'of lamb with... | |
 | James I (King of Scotland) - English language - 1825 - 308 pages
...page prescribed, their present state, . From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who would suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...creatures hides the book of All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men,from men what spirits know; Or who could suffer being here...to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...page presmb'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who eould , wondrous ereature ! mount where seienee guides,...state the tides ; Instruet the planets in what orb erops the flowery food, And lieks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh, blindness to the future... | |
 | James I (king of Scotland.) - 1825 - 306 pages
...page prescribed, their present state, From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who would suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms...to.day ; Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Fleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...thousand years ago. [fate, III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men...spirits know : Or who could suffer being here below ? S0 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...present state of man. V. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrih'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? 2. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy... | |
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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 to-day, Had he thy reason, would... 
