 | Richard Marks - Christian life - 1818 - 232 pages
...spirits know, Or who would suffer being here below ? The lamb our riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he our reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just ruis'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future, kindly giv'n,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. All- but the pqge prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know,...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescrib'd, their present state : al Theseus, and his large la>t, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just ruis'd to shed his blood. O.'i blindness to... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1820 - 330 pages
...of life, or at least of the sense of pain. Mr. Pope has finely described this in his ethic epistles: The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and p'ay ? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, .And licks HIP hand just rais'd to shed his Mood.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...Heav'n from all creatures hides lheJ>ook of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know:...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know,...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 252 pages
...l' Le livre des destins , à tout être vivant , Montre l'instant qui coule , et jamais le suivant. From brutes what men , from men what spirits know...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fate, AH but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know :...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...Heav'n from all 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 being here below ? 80 Oh blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, 85 That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 254 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. 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? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would... 
