 Cross, alive as he is, and thinking no harm in the world, he is divided into rumps, and sirloins, and briskets, and into all sorts of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing, that, all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me, —...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5291834Full view - About this book
 | 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 536 pages
...of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing, that all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me ,• is invidiously comparing the...the knife half out of the sheath — poor innocent ! Pleaid to the last, he crops the flow' ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blaod.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future I kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
 | John Stewart - Jamaica - 1808 - 330 pages
...•'-.•-'• " Behold the lamb, thy riot dooms 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.1" These visitations do not so often occur now as in former times, nor is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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 flowery food, And licks the hand jnst rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 pages
...ingeniously upon the properties of heat, while the fire is kindling to roast him and hi$ family ; " Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais d to shed his blood." We are fully convinced that Mr. Woodward has the disorder naturally ; and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...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 flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Ob blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...all sorts of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing ; that all the while they are measuring Aim, he is measuring me — is invidiously comparing the...on those who have the knife half out of the sheath, pour innocent! ' Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. 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 giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
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