 | Judith Nisse Shklar, Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 402 sivua
...follows from the comparison of men and sheep, and again it is the animal that is the material witness. "The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?" (I, 81-82). Our brutality is clear, and it is not mitigated by our own helplessness, our jumping and... | |
 | Aaron V. Garrett - 1690 sivua
...[God] Made Beast in aid of Man, and Man of Beast; All serv'd, all serving! nothing stands alone; with The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day Had he thy...last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.7 An Essay on Man (1734), in The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt... | |
 | Voltaire, David Wootton - 2000 - 190 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? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Oh... | |
 | Owen Lovejoy, William Ann Moore - 2004 - 432 sivua
...bear all that as a Christian; but to say that I do it cheerfully, is more than I can bring myself to. "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."7... | |
 | 1847
...sacrificed a lamb without repeating aloud to himself or to the by -standers those four lines of Pope, — " 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."... | |
 | Steve Clark, Masashi Suzuki - 2006 - 360 sivua
...from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state [. . .] The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day Had he thy...last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | John Farrell - 2006 - 341 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...last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | Giuseppe Antonio Camerino - 2006 - 251 sivua
...del tutto l'aggettivo innocente riferito all'agnello): «The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day / Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? / Pleas'd...last, he crops the flow'ry food, / And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood». Solo pochi versi dopo quelli or ora citati dal Meriggio inizia l'episodio... | |
 | Tristram Stuart - 2007 - 628 sivua
...answer that? He did so by masterfully reversing a scene from Ovid into the myth of the Happy Lamb: 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.17... | |
 | Marvin W. Hunt - 2007 - 256 sivua
...thy riot dooms to bleed today," Pope writes, "Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? / Pleased to the last he crops the flow'ry food, / And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." But neither is man in all ways materially superior to the lower orders.... | |
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their 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... 
