| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 sivua
...state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below 1 80 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play 1 Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 sivua
...state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits kno\v : 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 flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 sivua
...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.... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 sivua
...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.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 sivua
...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.... | |
| Stephen H. Browne - 1993 - 172 sivua
...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 blood." Thus Burke's Letter nears its conclusion at a very different level from where it began. What we may... | |
| Andrew H. Miller - 1995 - 260 sivua
...social comment, recalls lines from Pope's Essay on Man, which Thackeray was to quote in The Ne1vcombes: "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today,/ Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play?/ Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowr'y food/And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood" (lines... | |
| Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 428 sivua
...and of conceiving for himself an existence superior to the present sphere, a home in the heavens. " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...' Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, Anil licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Here, then, we hold the intellectual skeptic. He... | |
| Nicholas K. Robinson, Edmund Burke - 1996 - 233 sivua
...Beautiful". of the sheath? Poor innocau! hfll weu retw then &ut trtatrut flu lntfinfjf * n aleuv toay t&L . to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. 35 In IKO5, Lkirke\ friend William Windham (one of the managers of the Hastings impeachment and SeiTetary... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 sivua
...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 blood. "... Works by Edmund Burke The Correspondence of Edmund Burke. General Editor TW Copeland. University... | |
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