 | 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, that the image might first... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...raison."* 5i 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.f The tenderness of this striking image, and particularly the circumstance in the last line,... | |
 | 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 mark'd hy Heav'n... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 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 raised to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that... | |
 | John Stewart - Jamaica - 1808 - 330 pages
...fate. " 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 !" These visitations do not so often occur now as in former times, nor is the removal so mighty a one,... | |
 | 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 by Heaven j Who sees... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 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. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given. That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven : Who sees... | |
 | 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 the removal so mighty... | |
 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - Spiritualism - 1857 - 302 pages
...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 raised to shed his blood. O, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | 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... | |
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, 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. 
