 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...angel whisper peace, And smooth the bed of 'death. COTTOS. 3TION From brutes what men, from men whut spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below...to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the now'ry food, And licks the baud just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1827 - 416 pages
...our Creator in assigning ignorance to the brute creation as a mitigation of their condition : — ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." This was the passage which doubtless... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 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...spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below 1 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play 1 Pleas'd to the... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...late, or here or there ? The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. ***** 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 Kitchiner - Cab and omnibus service - 1827 - 326 pages
...even in the very vigour of Life, and under the vigilant exercise of every prudential measure. " Heav'n from all Creatures hides the Book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state." " As the Lord liveth, and as thy Soul liveth, there is but one step between Thee and DEATH!"—nay,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 258 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 what spirits know, Or who could suffer bemg here below ? 'The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...or here or there ? The bless 'd to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate,...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? Pleased... | |
 | 1828 - 244 pages
...— Adaline, ask not that of me ; you know that a veil of mystery is darkly drawn over the future; "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate,...All but the page prescribed, their present state," and therefore, let us forget to think upon days which are yet to come, and meditate only upon the present... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...vindicated in the 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...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 pages
...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... | |
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Heav'n 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,... 
