| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...here or there ? The blest to-day, is as completely so As who began a thousand years ago. 3. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but...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.... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...prefcrib'd, their prefent flate ; From brutes what men, from men what fpirits know, Or who could fuffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reafon, would he fldp and play ? Pleas'd to the la ft,- he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd their present states From brutes what men , i'rom men what spirits. ( know, Or who could suffer being...to-day, Had he thy reason , would he 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.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescrib'd, their preseut state : VOL. III. c From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ;...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,... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...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 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.... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...FUTURE STATE. (POPE.) HEAVEN 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 being bete below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...MAN VINDICATED. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fete, All but the page preserib'd, thjyr. 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 flow'ry food^ And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...thousand years ago. [fate, 3. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All bnt the page prescrib'd, their present state : From brutes what men, from men...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 flowery food, And... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...thousand years ago. [&te, 3. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescrib'd, their present state : From brutes what men, from men...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 flowery food, And... | |
| Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - Spiritualism - 1857 - 302 pages
...permit nothing to take place but what would be for our best good, and that of all concerned. '' Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed — their present state ; Prom brutes what men, from men what angels know; Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb... | |
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