 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...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...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
...hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd their present states From brutes what men , i'rom men what spirits. ( know, Or who could suffer being...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.... | |
 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - Spiritualism - 1857 - 302 pages
...fate, All but the page prescribed — their present state ; Prom brutes what men, from men what angels know; Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb...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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...creatures hides the book of fete, All but the page preserib'd, thjyr. present state ; ;: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know» Or who could suffer...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 - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'cl, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could suffer...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.... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...creatures hides the book of fate ( All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know; Or who could suffer...bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play I Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...creatures hides the book of fate. All- but the pqge prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could suffer...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 - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...creatures hides lheJ>ook of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer...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.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescrib'd, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer...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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could suffer...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.... | |
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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 today, Had he thy reason, would... 
