| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 páginas
...present state of man, I, HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fate, All hut the page prescribed, their present state , From brutes what men, from men...here below ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. J^lad he thy reason would he skip and play ? J'leas'd to the last, he crops the llow'ry food, And licks... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 páginas
...Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed their present slate: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know:...below! The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Had be thy reason, would he skip and play • Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks... | |
| 1829 - 132 páginas
...1829. C — . NARRATIVE, &c. &c. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd their present state ; From brutes what...spirits know, Or who could suffer being here below. OF my paternal grandsire I know but little ; my father, who alone was best able to give me information... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 832 páginas
...joined Greek, then was the tug of war, The laboured battle sweat, and conquest 6Ы. Lre't Alexander. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day ; Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pope. For me the balm shall bleed, and amber flow, The coral redden, and the ruby glow. Id. That from... | |
| John Parker Lawson - 1829 - 334 páginas
...SCOTLAND. CHAPTER I. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, AH but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who would suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 páginas
...who began a thousand years ago. 9 Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what...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. 10 0 blindness to the future ! kindly... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...began a thousand years ago. III. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes 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... | |
| Andrew H. Miller - 1995 - 260 páginas
...social comment, recalls lines from Pope's Essay on Man, which Thackeray was to quote in The Ne1vcombes: "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today,/ Had he thy...and play?/ Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowr'y food/And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood" (lines 81-4). The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed.... | |
| Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 428 páginas
...and of conceiving for himself an existence superior to the present sphere, a home in the heavens. " 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, Anil licks the hand just raised to shed his blood."... | |
| Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 436 páginas
...follows from the comparison of men and sheep, and again it is the animal that is the material witness. "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?" (I, 81-82). Our brutality is clear, and it is not mitigated by our own helplessness, our jumping and... | |
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