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... The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Page 162de Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 145 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...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 flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Ob blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
| William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...Imperfection name, 1. 273. Having premised thus much, we now proceed to Mr. J)c Crousa%. Mr. Pope had said, The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? * J'ai Id 1'essai de Mr. Pope (repond un ami de la companie) et jamais je n'eus plus besoin de patiejice.... | |
| William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 pages
...Imperfection name. 1. 273.' Having premised thus much, we now proceed to Mr. De Crousaz. Mr. Pope had said, The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? * J'ai lu 1'essai de Mr. Pope (repond un ami de la companie) et jamais je n'eus plus b«soin de.... | |
| James Perchard Tupper - 1811 - 156 pages
...existence without reflecting on its state: " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Ilad he thy reasoa 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." Life, therefore, has its due measure... | |
| William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 pages
...Having premised thus much, we now proceed to Mr. De Crousaz. Mr. Pope had said, The lamb thy riot doom: to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? • * J'ai 1ft 1'essai de Mr. Pope (repond un ami de la companie) et jaanais je n'eiis plus besoin... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pages
...present state ; From brutes what men, from n,en what spirits know. Or who eould suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would lie skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he erops the flow'ry food, And lieks the hand just rais'd to... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 90 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 fiow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
| Richard Graves - 1816 - 606 pages
...life, or at least of the sen'secf pain. Mr. Pope has finely descrihed this in his ethic epistles;' • The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to.day, Had he thy reason, wonld he skip and play! . Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry fond, And licks the hand jnst rais'd... | |
| 1834 - 1046 pages
...and in the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath, pour innocent! ' Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.' " With this parting blow of consummate scorn, well deserved by the noble Duke, he leaves him to such... | |
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