 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pages
...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 blindness to the future ! kindly... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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 to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly... | |
 | James Murphey - Bible and geology - 1850 - 280 pages
..." 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." Essay on Man, Ep. I., s. 3. The enjoyment of hours, days, weeks, months,... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...: — 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. — POPE. Look at man, who knows he must die, and cannot tell when, or how... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...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. 0 blindness to the future ! kindly... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...below ? so 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. O blindness to the future ! kindly given, 85 That each may fill the circle... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 pages
...below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to blced 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. Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...below? 8° The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased 4 "Where wert thou, brother, those four days?" There lives no raised to shed his blood. Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given, 85 That each may fill the circle... | |
 | 372 pages
...when the benevolent planets mutually aid each other. 45 Of the VERNAL, or SI-UINO Quarter of 1840. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy...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. THIS animating quarter of the year,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...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 blindness to the future! kindly... | |
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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... 
