 | 1829 - 842 pages
...whenever we do so. " The lamb, thy banquet dooms to bleed to day. Had he thy reason, would be frisk and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flow'ry food. And licks the hand that's raised to shed his blood. O blindness to the future kindly given, That each may fill the station... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...thousand years ago. 9 Heaven 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 flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. 10... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...bless'd to-day ii as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heaven from allcreatureshides reservation of chastity. As to the following cantos,...vision at the beginning, or the .ransformation at the e ? 80 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...All but the page prescrib'd', their present state* ; From brutes' what men*, from men' what spirit* know*; Or who could suffer being here below* ? The...to-day', Had he thy reason', would he skip and play' ? Pleag'd to the lasf , he crops the flow'ry food', And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood*.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 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 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to... | |
 | Andrew H. Miller - Business & Economics - 1995 - 260 pages
...social comment, recalls lines from Pope's Essay on Man, which Thackeray was to quote in The Ne1vcombes: "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today,/ Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play?/ Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowr'y food/And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood" (lines... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 428 pages
...and of conceiving for himself an existence superior to the present sphere, a home in the heavens. " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...skip and play ' Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, Anil licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Here, then, we hold the intellectual... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 436 pages
...follows from the comparison of men and sheep, and again it is the animal that is the material witness. "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?" (I, 81-82). Our brutality is clear, and it is not mitigated by our own helplessness, our jumping and... | |
 | Aaron V. Garrett - Nature - 324 pages
...[God] Made Beast in aid of Man, and Man of Beast; All serv'd, all serving! nothing stands alone; with 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.7... | |
 | Nancy Kress - Fiction - 2002 - 322 pages
...Now Available in Hardcover from Tor Books Turn the page for a preview of Nancy Kress 's latest Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state. — ALEXANDER POPE, "AN ESSAY ON MAN" PROLOGUE MARS July, 2168 Bellington Wace Arnold of Arnold Interplanetary,... | |
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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... 
