 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 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 suffer...the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the handjust raised to shed his blood. Oh! blindness to the future! kindly given, That each may fill the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...There is true philosophy, as well as fine poetry, in the Hues of Pope which every child can repeat : " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." The feelings of the lamb are not those of the murderer in the condemned cell, who knows that he is... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...true philosophy, as well as fine poetry, in the lines of Pope which every child can repeat : — • ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.' The feelings of the lamb are not those of the murderer in the condemned cell, who knows that he is... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1858 - 574 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...he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1858 - 478 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...he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1858 - 598 pages
...true philosophy, as well as fine poetry, in the lines of Pope which every child can repeat : — • ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...? \ Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, Antl licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.' The feelings of the lamb are not those of the murderer... | |
 | John Eadie - Bible - 1859 - 474 pages
...no higher conception ; " and the ass his master's crib," with no apprehension of a world beyond. " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Is it not godlike on the part of man to be lord of the lower creation, a divine representative to them?... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1859 - 226 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 suffer...would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops his flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. * Exclamation. Oh blindness* to... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1859 - 568 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...and play? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery fuod, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. After pausing on the last two fine verses,... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1859 - 852 pages
...true philosophy, as well as fine poetry, in the lines of Pope which every child can repeat : — " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last he crops his flowery food, And licks the band just raised to shed his blood.'' The feelings of the lamb are... | |
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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... 
