 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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...last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 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 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."... | |
 | 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...last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. NOTES. Ver. 70. at he ought :] Consequently man is not in a lapsed or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 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...last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. NOTES. Ver. 70. as he ought :] Consequently man is not in a lapsed or... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? nal things, Of time, and space, and fate's unbroken...will's quick impulse : others by the hand She led o'er flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh, blindness to the future! kindly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 pages
...present^stale : 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...skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 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...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 0 blindness to the future ! kindly... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 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 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... 
