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" Heav'n 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,... "
Choice Selections: Being about Six Hundred Extracts from More Than Two ... - Page 88
by Charles Northend - 1890 - 216 pages
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The Works of Alexander Pope;

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 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...spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below ? 80 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...thousand years ago. III. Heav'n froin all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state : F.rom brutes what men, from...spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below ? 80 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas 'd...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 pages
...present state of man. HEAV'N from all creature? 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 sutt-or being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...the bed of death. COTTON. 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 present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know; Or who could suffer...
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The Angler;: A Poem, in Ten Cantos; Comprising Proper Instructions in the ...

Thomas Pike Lathy - 1822 - 274 pages
...It flies the deep, and on the surface wheels, Till the approaching hand of death it feels. " 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 what spirits know : " Or who could...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED. 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...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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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 pages
...Heaven from all creatures hides the book of (at< All but the page prescrib'd, their present^stale : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know;...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....
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Report of the Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual ...

Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions - 1824 - 220 pages
...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 rais'd to shed his blood.'' This was the paisage which doubtlesi...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 10

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...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 7

1824 - 624 pages
...calf." 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 tkip and pluy ?' Now, though I object to the word riot, since there is no such mighty excess in a leg...
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