 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pągines
...state; 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 blood. Oh... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pągines
...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 flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pągines
...states From brutes what men , i'rom 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 flr>w'iy food , And licks the hand just rais'ci to shed his blood.... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pągines
...admiration, " 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." After having paused over such fine verses, may we admit the fonjecture,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pągines
...malheureux ? Quand un Fran^ais & un Anglais pensent de meme, il faut bien qu'ils ayent raison."* ( • 5. 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.... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pągines
...present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being bete 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 flgw'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pągines
...helow? The lamh thy riot dooms to hleed 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 hlood. Oh ! hlindness to the future ! kindly gtv'n, That each may fill the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 pągines
...admiration. " 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." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile... | |
 | Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - 1857 - 302 pągines
...present state ; Prom brutes what men, from men what angels know; Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pągines
...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 flow'ry food^ And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 
