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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... "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ... - Page 199
by Alexander Pope - 1808 - 651 pages
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...Providence vindicated in the present state of man. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fote, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ;...brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who couli! suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would...
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Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive ...

Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 436 pages
...means, 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 rzof, since there is no such mighty excess in a leg of lamb with...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 224 pages
...Heav'n, Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, \. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fate j All but the page prescrib'd, their present state;...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. A hero perish, or a sparrow full; Atoms...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...SECTION IX. Providence vindicated in the present state of man. 1 Heav'n from all creatures, hides the book of fate .; All but the page prescrib'd, their...to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pjeas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. 2...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. [Fate, 1 1 1. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescrib'd, their present state :...he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to tJie last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O!i blindness...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...present state of man. I. 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...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. Z. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry

Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...-present state of man, 1, HKAV'W from all creatures hides the book of fate ; All but the page prescribed, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood....
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English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...present state of man. 1. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fate, AH but the page preserib'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'.l to shed his blood. 8. Oh blindness lo the future! kindly...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...present state of man. HEAV'N from all creatures', hides the book of fate* ; All but the page prescnb'd', their present state* ; From brutes' what men*, from...to-day', Had he thy reason', would he skip and play'? Pieas'd to the last', he crops the flow'ry food', And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood*....
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...SHAKSPEARE. CHAP. XII. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present...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 last, he crops the flow'ry food,...
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