| 1817 - 314 páginas
...seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
| 1830 - 1024 páginas
...sings of one of the loveliest victim* of the master animal of prey : Pleased to the last he crops his flowery food. And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. But, if habitual caution among many of the tribes of life is, however, excited by the circumstance... | |
| John Prior Estlin - 1818 - 422 páginas
...supply our wants, ignorant of the fate that awaits him, skips about contented and happy, " Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood." POPE. That one species of animals therefore should prey upon another, cruel... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 402 páginas
...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. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
| 1822 - 284 páginas
...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...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O blindness to the future! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven; Who sees with... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 páginas
...of being in a condition at least as favorable as that in which they stood before the war commenced. Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand that's raised to shed his blood ! The alteration of the money of account was a circumstance which the... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 354 páginas
...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...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that I should conjecture the image... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 páginas
...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...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that I should conjecture the image... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd by the hand She led o'er vales and mountains, to explore What rais'd to shed his blood. Oh, blindness to the future! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 páginas
...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. O blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, 85 That each may fill the circle... | |
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