 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...thousand years ago. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...spirits know, Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n ; Who sees, with equal eye, as God of all, A hero... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present ttate ; From brutes what meu-, from men what spirits know; Or who could suffer being...below? •% The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day* Hail he thy reason, would he skip ai.-l play ? PleasVl to ifae last, he crops the flow'ry food, •... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...OF MAN VINDICATED. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate ( All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men...bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play I Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind ; His soul... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...thousand years ago. [Fate, III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescrib'd, st magnificence Of royal Theseus, and his large ? Pleas'd to the la>t, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just ruis'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...thousand years ago. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. All- but the pqge prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men...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. Oh... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1820 - 330 pages
...of life, or at least of the sense of pain. Mr. Pope has finely described this in his ethic epistles: The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and p'ay ? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, .And licks HIP hand just rais'd to shed his Mood.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...thousand years ago. III. Heav'n from all creatures hides lheJ>ook of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...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.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...thousand years ago. [Fate, III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescrib'd, their present state : From brutes what men, from men...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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...Present State of Man, Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...present slate of man. 1 . HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fate, AH but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...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,... | |
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Heav'n 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,... 
