 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,...  Moral essays, satires, &c - Page 7by Alexander Pope - 1777 - 195 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...prescrib'd, 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 he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...pageprescrib'd, 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 he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowr'y food, And licks the hand... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...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 he skip and play? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...prescrib'd, their present^stale : 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 he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...prescrib'd, 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 he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer the moment of eternal things, Of time, and space, and fate's unbroken reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who couli! 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...presmb'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who eould suffer ous ereature ! mount where seienee guides, Go, measuie earth, weigh ai reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he erops the flowery food, And lieks the hand... | |
 | James I (king of Scotland.) - 1825 - 306 pages
...prescribed, their present state, From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who would suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to.day ; Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Fleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand... | |
 | James I (King of Scotland) - English language - 1825 - 308 pages
...prescribed, their present state, . From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who would 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 flowery food, And licks the hand... | |
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