 | George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - 1832 - 122 էջ
...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...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,... | |
 | Edward Young, William Danby - 1832 - 306 էջ
...fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From beasts what men, from men what angels know, Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb...to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the luscious food, And licks the hand that's rais'd to shed his blood."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 էջ
...Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their presenVstate : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 The lamb thy riot doom* to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ? rieas'd to... | |
 | George Miller - 1833 - 428 էջ
...hope. Well said is it, indeed, by POPK, in his little profound treatise, the ** Essay on Man,"— " Heaven, from all creatures, hides the book of fate...spirits know, Or who could suffer being here below ? Oh blindness to the future, kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by Heaven." In the... | |
 | George Miller (of Dunbar) - 1833 - 422 էջ
...hope. Well said is it, indeed, by POPI, in his little profound treatise, the " Essay on Man,"— " Heaven, from all creatures, hides the book of fate...present state. From brutes, what men, from men, what spirit» know, Or who could suffer being here below ? Oh blindness to the future, kindly given, That... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 էջ
...makes men free. — FROTHINOHAM. LESSON CXXXI. Providence Vindicated in the Present State of Ma*. 1. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate,...spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below T The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ? Pleased to the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 394 էջ
...our ear, we never examine it but with undiminished admiration. " The lamb, thy riot dooms to hleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 էջ
...cannot be, so long as we continue at enmity with others." THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state, Oh ! blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven. Hope humbly... | |
 | James Forbes - 1834 - 586 էջ
...to all my arguments, and would neither admit the truth nor beauty of Pope's more rational system. " 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 Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 էջ
...cannot be, so long as we continue at enmity with others." THE PRESENT CONDITION OF MAN VINDICATED. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state, Oh ! blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven. Hope humbly... | |
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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,... 
