 | Theology - 1847 - 496 pages
...lamb without repeating aloud to himself or to the by-standers those four lines of Pope, — " 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."... | |
 | Dyer Hook Sanborn - English language - 1848 - 300 pages
...Rev. This man he has acted very imprudently. My banks, they are furnished with bees. — Shenstone. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? — Pope. 210, 211, and 212. I am happy in the friend. which 1 have long proved. The man which... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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.... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1848 - 324 pages
...evil. He that was yesterday a king-, behold him dead, and the beggar is better than he. — Bible. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and' play ? — Pope. Hail ! mildly pleasing Solitude, Companion of the wise and good. All this dread order... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 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 King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 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 Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 326 pages
...the beauty of a passage depended on a word ; for instance, said he, apostrophizing the sheep — " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, his flowery food he crops, And licks the hand that cuts him into chops !"... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 328 pages
...of a passage depended on a word ; for instance, said he, apostrophizing the sheep — * " The Iamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, his flowery food he crops, And licks the hand that cuts him into chops !"... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pages
...; 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... | |
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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... 
