 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1839 - 276 pages
...From brutes what men, from men what ipirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? The Inmb 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.... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 pages
..."Adversity ! how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver, in comparison with those of guilt." — Blair. " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ?" — Pope. LESSON XXVI. KULE XXVI. Let him that hastens to be rich, take heed lest he suddenly... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...present state: From brutes what men, from men what spiri ta know: Or who could suffer being here below Î ough the air sublime, play ? Pieas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raie'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | Free thought - 1842 - 1124 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 liis blood.... | |
 | William Holt Yates - Egypt - 1843 - 634 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 raised to shed his blood.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer being here below ? . 80 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.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb2 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 - American literature - 1846 - 530 pages
...exhibits. Even familiar aa 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 f kip and play ? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1847 - 488 pages
...sacrificed a lamb without repeating aloud to himself or to the by-standers those four lines of Pope, — " 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."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...Warburton. From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could suffer Being here below? 80 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.... | |
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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... 
