 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 162by Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 145 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Theophilus Lindsey - 1805 - 338 pages
...would he skip and piny? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'// food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh ! blindness to the future, kindly given, That each may till the circle inark'd by hea\'n ! Essay on Jllan. £pi We, also, as partakers of the same nature... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...malheureux ? Quand un Fran^ais & un Anglais pensent de meme, il faut bien qu'ils ayent raison."* ( • 5. 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.... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being bete 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 flgw'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 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 raised to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that I should conjecture the image... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...helow? The lamh thy riot dooms to hleed 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 hlood. Oh ! hlindness to the future ! kindly gtv'n, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - 1857 - 302 pages
...present state ; Prom brutes what men, from men what angels know; Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by Heaven. Hope humbly... | |
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