 Cross, alive as he is, and thinking no harm in the world, he is divided into rumps, and sirloins, and briskets, and into all sorts of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing, that, all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me, —...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5291834Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...[know ; 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 given, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing — that all the time they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me ; is invidiously comparing the bounty...the knife half out of the sheath — poor innocent, Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to ahed his blood. Let... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...his grace is measuring me ; is invidiously comparing the hounty of the crown with the deserts of tho defender of his order, and in the same moment fawning...— poor innocent! Pleased to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his htood. No man lives too long, who lives to... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Slavery - 1860 - 384 pages
...present state; 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, And licks the hand just raised to ehed his blood."—POPE. IT was the 5th of September, in the year 1840. Brightly gleamed the evening... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...[know ; 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 given, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1864 - 452 pages
...(Reads:) — " 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, And licks the hand " — Bless us ! is that saddle of mutton gone home to Mrs. Simpson's ? It should have gone an hour... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1865 - 444 pages
...(Reads:^) — " 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, And licks the hand " — Bless us ! is that saddle of mutton gone home to Mrs. Simpson's? It should have gone an hour... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1866 - 528 pages
...of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing, that, all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me, — is invidiously comparing the...last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand ju.,t raised to shed his blood." No man lives too long who lives to do with spirit and suffer with... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1866 - 570 pages
...admiration. The Itfnib, 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, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that... | |
 | 1866 - 328 pages
...[know ; 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 given, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
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