 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 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.... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly given, ' That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven ; Who sees... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer being here below ? S0 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future I kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...page presmb'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who eould , wondrous ereature ! mount where seienee guides,...measuie earth, weigh air, and state the tides ; Instru ? Pleas'd to the last, he erops the flowery food, And lieks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | James I (king of Scotland.) - 1825 - 306 pages
...page prescribed, their present state, From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who would suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms...to.day ; Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Fleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who couli! suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms...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.... | |
 | James I (King of Scotland) - English language - 1825 - 308 pages
...page prescribed, their present state, . From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who would suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms...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 raised to shed his blood.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? 2. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, 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.... | |
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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... 
