| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? nal things, Of time, and space, and fate's unbroken chain, And will's quick i play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pages
...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 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.... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 pages
...exhibits. Even familiar as it is to our 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 ? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood."... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...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 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.... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...and what sort of sounds it makes." — " Then, as to dancing," resumed the Poet, " what says Pope ? ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ?' Now, though I object to the word riot, since there is no such mighty excess in a leg'of lamb... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...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 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.... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...and what sort of sounds it makes."--" Then, as to dancing," resumed the Poet, " what says Pope ? . ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Had he thy reason, would he skin and ulav ?' i -, ' ' ; . ° rl ''•• i '• Now, though I object to the word riot, since tbere... | |
| 1824 - 624 pages
...calf." sort of sounds it makes." — " Then, as to dancing," resumed the Poet, " what says Pope ? ' The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he tkip and pluy ?' Now, though I object to the word riot, since there is no such mighty excess in a leg... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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 he skip and play ? Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.... | |
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