 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, 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.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5251834Full view - About this book
 | 1830 - 1046 pages
...sings of one of the loveliest victims of the master animal of prey : Pleased to the last he crops his flowery food. And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. But, if habitual caution among many of the tribes of life is, however, excited by the circumstance... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 pages
...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 licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O blindness to the future! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven; Who sees with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...below ? 80 The lamb thy riot doom* to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ? rieas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly gi v'n, 85 That each may fill the circle... | |
 | 1834 - 1064 pages
...sheath,¿>oor innocent ! ' Pleased to the last, lie crops the fiovrery food, And licks the band just rained to shed his blood.' " With this parting blow of consummate...Duke, he leaves him to such consolation as he could tuvd. va. «Л the. ILmpue. PROGRESS OF SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION. No. III. THE PROSTRATION OF GOVERNMENT.... | |
 | 1834 - 1056 pages
...his order, and in the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath, poor innocent! ' Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his bjpod.' '* With this parting blow of consummate scorn, well deserved by the noble Duke, he leaves him... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...being here below T 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. 2. Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by heaven ; Who... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 394 pages
...admiration. " The lamb, thy riot dooms to hleed 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 rais'd to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath — poor innocent ! Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood." Once more : " I thank you for the bundle of state-papers which I received... | |
 | James Forbes - 1834 - 586 pages
...system. " 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." According to Herodotus, the ancient Egyptians believed, that on the dissolution... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath — poor innocent ! Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood." Once more : " I thank you for the bundle of state-papers which I received... | |
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