 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...man for the sake of his present enjoyment: but this is rashly grounded on the supposition POPE. I. B 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.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli, Jsaac D'Jsraeli - English literature - 1835 - 524 pages
...exhibits. Even familiar as it is to our ear, we never examine it but with uudiminished admiration. * The lamb, thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he ?kip and play ? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery (boo, And licks the hand just raided to shed... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 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.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 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.... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits kno\v : 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... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 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? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the fiow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | 1839 - 66 pages
...tecta petit : Ule inter gemitus miser et suspiria, tarda Guttatim effuso sanguine morte périt. HH 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 uprais'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...present state : From brutes wlmt 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.... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...of the blind warrior, and of the child holding out his helmet to receive alms. Dnz. HAPPY IGNORANCE. 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.... | |
 | William Youatt - Animal rights - 1839 - 238 pages
...poured out. When that is done, there must be a speedy termination of the sufferings of the animal. 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'dto 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... 
