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... John Heywood's Paragon readers - Page 148by John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884Full view - About this book
| 1739 - 480 pages
...Religion " agree in this, and a Man muft want both one «* and the other, to cry out, " O Blindnefs to the Future ! kindly given, *« That each may fill the Circle mark'd by «*- Heav'n. " This fuppofes that if Men had a Fore*' knowledge of their Deftiny, they would do all... | |
| John Bell - 1796 - 524 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. Oh... | |
| James I (King of Scotland) - 1783 - 272 pages
...the laft he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand juft raifed to filed his blood. Oh blindnefs ! to the future kindly given, . '.. . . That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven. on ManXV. • i Thus ftant thy confort in * unfekernefle, And wantis it, y1 fuld the reule and gye,... | |
| William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...the laft, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his blood, Oh blindnefs to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'nj; Who fees with equal eye, as God! of all, A hero perifh, or a fparrow fall, Atoms or fyftems... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...the laft, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'cl to ftied his blood. Oh blindnefs to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven; Who fees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perifli, or a fparrow fall ; Atoms or fyftems into ruin... | |
| James Lackington - 1794 - 346 pages
...laft, he crops flie flow'ry food,. And licks the hand juft rais'd to fbed his blood'.. Oh, blindnefs to the future kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n. Dr. Moore in his travels through France, Switzerland and Germany, relates the following remarkable... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 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 ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 pages
...the la ft,- he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his blood. Oh blindnefs to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n ; Who fees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perifli, or a fparrow fall; Atoms or fyftems... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...states From brutes what men , i'rom 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 flr>w'iy food , And licks the hand just rais'ci to shed his blood.... | |
| 1804 - 452 pages
...admiration, " 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." After having paused over such fine verses, may we admit the fonjecture,... | |
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