 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...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...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 bis blood. 3.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...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 and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'rv food, id licks the hand just rajs'd to shed his blood".... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 354 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...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that I should conjecture the image... | |
 | 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...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that I should conjecture the image... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...All but the page prescrib'd, their present^stale : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know; Or who could suffer being here below ? . The lamb...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.... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...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...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. 10... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; me she gave To weigh the moment of eternal things,...and fate's unbroken chain, And will's quick impulse Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 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.... | |
 | 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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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 today, Had he thy reason, would... 
