 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 strani
...is as completely so. As who began a thousand years ago. 111. Heavenirom all creatures hides thebook of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present...what men, from men what spirits know Or who could sufler being here below ? 80 The lamb thy riot dooms lo bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1861 - 536 strani
...we never examine it but with undiminished admiration. " The lamb, thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, i Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased...he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1861 - 444 strani
...sphere, a home in the heavens. " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would lie skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Here, then, we hold the intellectual skeptic. He can not overthrow this evidence* It rises, like truth,... | |
 | 1863 - 556 strani
...attribute of being susceptible to mental pain. Of this fact the poet reveals a just conception :— "Tho lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason,...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." That the torture of anticipation cannot be felt by any animal to the eitent that it afflicts humanity,... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 strani
...IGNORANCE OF FUTURE EVENTS, AND ON HIS HOPE OF A FUTURE STATE.— Pope. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate ; All but the page prescribed, their...spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below 1 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play 1 Pleased to the... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1863 - 274 strani
...state ; — From bvutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who eould sutfer 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 erops the flowery food, And lieks the hand just raised to shed his blood ! Oh, blindness to the future,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1864 - 452 strani
...books as these. The motto, I see, is from Pope; I dare say, very much to the purpose. (Reads:) — " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand " — Bless us ! is that saddle of mutton gone home to Mrs. Simpson's ? It should have gone an hour... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 strani
...SCOTT. 108. THE BLESSING OF A CONCEALED FUTURE. [From THE ESSAY on MAN.] HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their...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... | |
 | Richard C. AUSTIN - 1864 - 176 strani
...con-ster-na-tion con-sti-tu-tion con-sul-ta-tion con-sum-ma-tion con-tem-pla-tion Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their...spirits know, Or who could suffer being here below ? The ram thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 strani
...for ever ! FROM THE ESSAY ON MAN. THE FUTURE MERCIFULLY CONCEALED. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their...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 1 Pleased to the... | |
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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. 
