 | 1829 - 624 pages
..." The Iamb, thy banquet dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy reason, would he frisk and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand that's raised to shed his blood. O blindness to the future kindly given, That each may fill the station... | |
 | 1829 - 842 pages
..." The lamb, thy banquet dooms to bleed to day. Had he thy reason, would be frisk and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flow'ry food. And licks the hand that's raised to shed his blood. O blindness to the future kindly given, That each may fill the station... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 cept the loss of your mir, which I always mention with reverence.) The i' MU iu pe ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.... | |
 | 1830 - 1016 pages
...such books as these. The motto, I see, is from Pope. I daresay, very much to the purpose. (Reads.) " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he sport and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops his flowery food, And licks the hand" Bless us, is that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 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. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, 85 That each may fill the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
