 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 էջ
...here or there ? The bless'd to-day is as completely so, 75 As who began a thousand years ago. iII. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate ;...spirits know; Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 64 Egypt's god. The worship of Apis was adopted from Asia, probably with some allegorical reference... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 264 էջ
...the pruent state of HEAV'N from all creatures, hides the book of fate; All but the page prescrib'tl, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-dajr, Had he thy reason, would he skip and^play ? Pleas'd to the last, lie crops the flow'ry food,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 էջ
...completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heavenfrom all creatures hides the book of fale, All but the page prescribed, their present state ;...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 էջ
...thousand years ago. III. 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 The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to... | |
 | Andrew H. Miller - 1995 - 260 էջ
...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 էջ
...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... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 436 էջ
...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 - 324 էջ
...[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 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.7... | |
 | Nancy Kress - 2002 - 322 էջ
...KRESS Now Available in Hardcover from Tor Books Turn the page for a preview of Nancy Kress 's latest Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state. — ALEXANDER POPE, "AN ESSAY ON MAN" PROLOGUE MARS July, 2168 Bellington Wace Arnold of Arnold Interplanetary,... | |
 | John Farrell - 2006 - 372 էջ
...indispensable resource. 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. Oh... | |
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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,... 
