 | Edward William Lewis Davies - 1858 - 163 páginas
...other in supplying him with handfuls of green clover, which he devoured as rapidly as it arrived. " Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." The negroes danced in rings to the monotonous music of the torn-torn: the ox was slain, and his blood... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858
...can repeat : " 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." The feelings of the lamb are not those of the murderer in the condemned cell, who knows that he is... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1858
...undiminished admiration. 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 rais'd to shed his blood. After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that... | |
 | John Eadie - 1859 - 453 páginas
...world beyond. " 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." Is it not godlike on the part of man to be lord of the lower creation, a divine representative to them?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859
...[know ; 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. O blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 478 páginas
...riot dooms to blced to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ! Pleased to the last, he erops Oh blindness to the future 1 kindly given, That each may fill the eirele mark d by Heaven : Who sces... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1859
...seductive tongue ! Yes, Sir, there is one, the Member for Sandwich — " Pleased to the last ho crops his flowery food, "And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." But when those smaller boroughs are destroyed, what then ? To what constituencies will they be transferred... | |
 | 1902
...Act ii, Sc. I. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he ihy 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 — "Essay on Man." Epistle 1, l. 81. And here is another batch: Oldham in his "Satire against... | |
 | Bernhard Neuendorff - 1903 - 107 páginas
...Man, Epistle I: The lamb they 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. Thomson hatte gegen jedes Quälen der Tiere geschrieben, gegen das Einsperren von Vögeln schon, gegen... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903
...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. O blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by Heaven ; Who sees... | |
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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. 
