 | James I (King of Scotland) - 1825 - 308 pages
...richest glow of poetry. 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 would suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day ; Had he thy reason, would... | |
 | Edward Davies - 1825 - 356 pages
...disguised in any language! The lamh which thy riot dooms to bleed this morning, Had he but thy knowledge, would he skip and play ! Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry pasture, And licks the hand that is just rais'd to shed his blood. In the printed specimens of the... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - 1826 - 314 pages
...present state of man. I. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrih'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Z. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the cirele mark'a by Heav'n ; Who... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...thousand years ago. III. 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...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... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 pages
...and in the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath - poor innocent! Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowr'y food And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.18 No man lives too long, who lives to do with spirit, and suffer with resignation, what Providence... | |
 | Andrew H. Miller - 1995 - 260 pages
...social comment, recalls lines from Pope's Essay on Man, which Thackeray was to quote in The Ne1vcombes: "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today,/ Had he thy...and play?/ Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowr'y food/And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood" (lines 81-4). The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed.... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 428 pages
...and of conceiving for himself an existence superior to the present sphere, a home in the heavens. " 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, Anil licks the hand just raised to shed his blood."... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 436 pages
...follows from the comparison of men and sheep, and again it is the animal that is the material witness. "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?" (I, 81-82). Our brutality is clear, and it is not mitigated by our own helplessness, our jumping and... | |
 | Aaron V. Garrett - 324 pages
...[God] Made Beast in aid of Man, and Man of Beast; All serv'd, all serving! nothing stands alone; with The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day Had he thy...flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.7 An Essay on Man (1734), in The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt (New Haven: Yale University... | |
 | 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."... | |
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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 to-day, Had he thy reason, would... 
