 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...supposition POPE. I. B 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. O, blindness to the future ! kindly given, 85 That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven ; Who... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...here helow ? 80 The lamh thy riot dooms to hleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? huntress, and her virgin train, Nor envy, Windsor ! since thy shades have seen An bright a hlood. Oh hlindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd hy Heaven ,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath — poor innocent Pleas'd gether the great contexture of this mysterious whole. rais'd to shed his blood." Once more : " I thank you for the bundle of state-papers which I received... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 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 rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 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 rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? the mercury of man is fix'J, Strong grows the virtue with his nature niix'd ; The dross cements Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given. That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven : Who sees... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 pages
...HAPPY IGNORANCE. 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. O, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by heaven, That views... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 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." Report asserts that the account given in this work of the origin of the... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pages
...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...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.' " CHAPTER VIII. Revolutionary War — Letters on a Regicide Peace — True Principle of British Succesr... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...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...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.' " CHAPTER VIII. Revolutionary War — Letters on a Regicide Peace — True Principle of British Success... | |
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