 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their...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 ? Pleased to... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 pages
...Pope was Dryden. BLESSING OF A CONCEALED FUTURE. — ("Essay on Man") HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their...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 ? Pleased to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 60 pages
...to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. in. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate ; All but the page prescribed, their...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? Pleased to the... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1860 - 276 pages
...bright With something of an angel light. 9. From Pope's Essay on Man. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their...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 ? Pleased to the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1851 - 574 pages
...that we should do well to write an LEG upon it" This observation evoked the following stanzas : — " 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 1" POPE. HERE hath been served, upon... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...is as completely so. As who began a thousand years ago. 111. Heavenirom all creatures hides thebook of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present...what men, from men what spirits know Or who could sufler being here below ? 80 The lamb thy riot dooms lo bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1861 - 536 pages
...we never examine it but with undiminished admiration. " The lamb, thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, i Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased...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... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - Spiritualism - 1861 - 444 pages
...sphere, a home in the heavens. " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would lie skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Here, then, we hold the intellectual skeptic. He can not overthrow this evidence* It rises, like truth,... | |
 | English literature - 1863 - 556 pages
...attribute of being susceptible to mental pain. Of this fact the poet reveals a just conception :— "Tho lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason,...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." That the torture of anticipation cannot be felt by any animal to the eitent that it afflicts humanity,... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 pages
...IGNORANCE OF FUTURE EVENTS, AND ON HIS HOPE OF A FUTURE STATE.— Pope. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate ; All but the page prescribed, their...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 Pleased to the... | |
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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 shed his blood. 
