 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...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...future! kindly given, That each may fill the circle rnark'd by Heav'n : Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...A CONCEALED FUTURE. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men...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... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...: — 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. — POPE. Look at man, who knows he must die, and cannot tell when, or how soon, and observe how little... | |
 | James Murphey - Bible and geology - 1850 - 280 pages
..." 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." Essay on Man, Ep. I., s. 3. The enjoyment of hours, days, weeks, months, and years, are terminated... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n ; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...ebenfalls hochst vortheilhaft aus. Extract from Pope's Essay on Man. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their...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 mark'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits knowt ook his hourly rounds, Safe from their blows, or new-invented...desperate deeds, and mischiefs done. Where from Snow-hill rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | John Burroughs - Cosmology - 1920 - 348 pages
...wrote: "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Had he thy reason could he skip and play? "Pleased to the last he crops the flowery food. And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." If the horse only knew his own strength, and knew that he had "rights," would there not soon be a horse... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1920 - 136 pages
...mortal and put on the robes of immortality. In the time that is to come we shall know and understand. O, blindness to the future kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by heaven. I believe in the resurrection of the dead, as he did, and in the life beyond the... | |
 | Champ Clark - United States - 1920 - 530 pages
...eventful day I recall the pregnant words of Alexander Pope, the greatest epigrammatist that ever lived; O blindness to the future kindly given That each may fill the circle marked by Heaven, Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall. The unalloyed... | |
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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. 
