 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 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 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. O... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 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 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.... | |
 | Thomas Pike Lathy - Fishing - 1822 - 274 pages
...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 he skip and play ? •will be in vain. You then bring him to land ; or, if you be near enough, fling him on shore. (o)... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...of being in a condition at least as favorable as that in which they stood before the war commenced. Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand that's raised to shed his blood ! The alteration of the money of account was a circumstance which the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 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 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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 lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, 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. 
