 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer being here below ? f knighthood on my sword. '* Who now but Palomon exults with joy ? And ravish play ? Pleas'd to the la>t, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just ruis'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...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 just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...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 rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...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 rais-'d to shed his... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...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 rais'd to shed bis blood.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...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 raised to shed his blood.... | |
 | Thomas Pike Lathy - Fishing - 1822 - 274 pages
...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 ? •will be in vain. You then bring him to land ; or, if you be near enough, fling him on shore.... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...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 just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know; Or who could suffer being here below ? The Iamb 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.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1823 - 354 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 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."... | |
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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... 
