 | 1847 - 486 pages
...sacrificed a lamb without repeating aloud to himself or to the by -standers those four lines of Pope, — " 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."... | |
 | Denise Gigante - 2008 - 264 pages
...looks him in the face, / And horribly devours his mangled flesh" (in Shelley's words), while the lamb "crops the flow'ry food, / And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood" (as in Pope's Essay on Man).2* Blake, who contrasts the "Tyger" and the "Lamb" in his Songs of Innocence... | |
 | Steve Clark, Masashi Suzuki - 2006 - 362 pages
...from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state [. . .] The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day Had he thy...his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle marked by heav'n;28 This short passage, opened and closed by a circular... | |
 | John Farrell - 2006 - 372 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...his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven: Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish,... | |
 | Giuseppe Antonio Camerino - 2006 - 280 pages
...del tutto l'aggettivo innocente riferito all'agnello): «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». Solo pochi versi dopo quelli or ora citati dal Meriggio inizia l'episodio della vergine cuccia. L'aggettivo... | |
 | Tristram Stuart - 2007 - 692 pages
...answer that? He did so by masterfully reversing a scene from Ovid into the myth of the Happy Lamb: 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.17... | |
 | Marvin W. Hunt - 2007 - 272 pages
...thy riot dooms to bleed today," Pope writes, "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." But neither is man in all ways materially superior to the lower orders.... | |
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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 Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would... 
