 | Bibliography - 1739 - 480 pages
...Religion " agree in this, and a Man muft want both one «* and the other, to cry out, " O Blindnefs to the Future ! kindly given, *« That each may fill the Circle mark'd by «*- Heav'n. " This fuppofes that if Men had a Fore*' knowledge of their Deftiny, they would do all... | |
 | James I (King of Scotland) - Music - 1783 - 272 pages
...the laft he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand juft raifed to filed his blood. Oh blindnefs ! to the future kindly given, . '.. . . That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven. on ManXV. • i Thus ftant thy confort in * unfekernefle, And wantis it, y1 fuld the reule and gye,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...the laft, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his blood, Oh blindnefs to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'nj; Who fees with equal eye, as God! of all, A hero perifh, or a fparrow fall, Atoms or fyftems... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...the laft, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'cl to ftied his blood. Oh blindnefs to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven; Who fees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perifli, or a fparrow fall ; Atoms or fyftems into ruin... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1794 - 346 pages
...laft, he crops flie flow'ry food,. And licks the hand juft rais'd to fbed his blood'.. Oh, blindnefs to the future kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n. Dr. Moore in his travels through France, Switzerland and Germany, relates the following remarkable... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...the la ft,- he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his blood. Oh blindnefs to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n ; Who fees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perifli, or a fparrow fall; Atoms or fyftems... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...one can never examine it, but with the same admiration, " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd...he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood." After having paused over such fine verses, may we admit the fonjecture,... | |
 | Theophilus Lindsey - Unitarianism - 1805 - 338 pages
...would he skip and piny? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'// food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh ! blindness to the future, kindly given, That each may till the circle inark'd by hea\'n ! Essay on Jllan. £pi We, also, as partakers of the same nature... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...tire laft, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his blood* O blindnefs to the future! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n; Who fees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perifh, or a fparrow fall; Atoms or fyftems... | |
 | 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...he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. f The tenderness of this striking image, and particularly the circumstance... | |
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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. 
