 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 what spirits know : Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason,...  Anti-slavery Monthly Reporter - Page 75edited by - 1827Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...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 ! blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, '5 Thateach may fill the circle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...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. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...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. Oh ! blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, 85 That each may fill the circle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...helow ? 80 The lamh thy riot dooms to hleed to-day. Hud he thy reason would he skip and play? I'leas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food. And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his hlood. Oh! hlindness to the future! kindly giv'n, 85 That each may fill the circle... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...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. Oh blindness to the fufure kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...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. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | James Perchard Tupper - Plant physiology - 1811 - 156 pages
...without reflecting on its state: " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Ilad he thy reasoa would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Life, therefore, has its due measure of enjoyment for all, according to the nature of the beings endued... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...scurrility, while Mr. De Crousaz, good mail, is unable to Wake him bold his peace. Pleas'd Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future L kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 446 pages
...scurrility, while Mr. De Crousaz, good pian, is unable to make him hold his peace. , •* Pleas'd Plcas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly giv'n, That each may fin the circle mark'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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 blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, 85 That each may fill the circle... | |
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