 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 sider
...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...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... | |
 | 1804 - 452 sider
...one can never examine it, but with the same admiration, " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd...And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood." After having paused over such fine verses, may we admit the fonjecture, that the image might first... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sider
...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...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. Oh bliudness to the future! kindly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 sider
...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. Oh ! blindness to the future ! kindly... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 sider
...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...And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. f The tenderness of this striking image, and particularly the circumstance in the last line, has an... | |
 | 1806 - 408 sider
...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...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 blindness to the future! kindly... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 sider
...malheureux ? Quand un Francais & un Anglais pensent de meme, il faut bien qu'ils ayent raison."* 5i 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.f... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 sider
...from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer heing here helow? The lamh thy riot dooms to hleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ?...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 circle mark'd hy Heav'n... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 sider
...ear, we never examine it but with undiminished admiration. " The lamb, thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd...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 that... | |
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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... 
