 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...from men what spirits know Or who could suffer heing here helow ? 60 The lamh thy riut dooms to hleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he erops the flowery food, And licks me hand just raised to shed his hlood. Oh hlindness to the futore... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pages
...thousand years ago. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. All- but the pqge prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men...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. Oh... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...thousand years ago. [Fate, III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescrib'd, st magnificence Of royal Theseus, and his large ? Pleas'd to the la>t, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just ruis'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1820 - 330 pages
...of life, or at least of the sense of pain. Mr. Pope has finely described this in his ethic epistles: The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and p'ay ? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, .And licks HIP hand just rais'd to shed his Mood.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 pages
...thousand years ago. III. Heav'n from all creatures hides lheJ>ook of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...Present State of Man, Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...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.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...thousand years ago. [Fate, III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescrib'd, their present state : From brutes what men, from men...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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...present slate of man. 1 . HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fate, AH but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...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 flow'ry food,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 252 pages
...l' Le livre des destins , à tout être vivant , Montre l'instant qui coule , et jamais le suivant. From brutes what men , from men what spirits know...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 flow'ry food,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...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 men, from men...spirits know, Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 Oh blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, 85 That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n ;... | |
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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... 
