 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 British anthology; or, Poetical library - Page 12by British anthology - 1825Full view - About this book
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...in the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath, — poor innocent ! ' Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.' " CHAPTER VIII. Revolutionary War — Letters on a Regicide Peace — True Principle of British Success... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...in the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath, — poor innocent ! ' Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.' " CHAPTER VIII. Revolutionary War — Letters on a Regicide Peace — True Principle of British Succesr... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1840 - 270 pages
...hides the book qf fate, All but !he page prescrib'd, 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, l I. id he thy reason, would he skip and pl.iy ? Pleas'd to the last, hp( crops th'd jlow'ry food.... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 pages
..."Adversity ! how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver, in comparison with those of guilt." — Blair. " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ?" — Pope. LESSON XXVI. KULE XXVI. Let him that hastens to be rich, take heed lest he suddenly become... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...present state: From brutes what men, from men what spiri ta know: Or who could suffer being here below Î ough the air sublime, ? Pieas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raie'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 pages
...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, being...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 liis blood.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...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 thy Reason, would 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.... | |
 | Stephen H. Browne - 1993 - 172 pages
...order, and in the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath? Poor innocent! "Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, /...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Thus Burke's Letter nears its conclusion at a very different level from where it began. What we may... | |
 | Andrew H. Miller - 1995 - 260 pages
...social comment, recalls lines from Pope's Essay on Man, which Thackeray was to quote in The Ne1vcombes: "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today,/ Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play?/ Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowr'y food/And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood" (lines... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 428 pages
...and of conceiving for himself an existence superior to the present sphere, a home in the heavens. " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...' Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, Anil licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Here, then, we hold the intellectual skeptic. He... | |
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