 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...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...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.... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 428 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1847 - 486 Seiten
...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...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Amidst toils like these came forth the large flapped, weather-stained, round, and low-crowned hat,... | |
 | Owen Lovejoy - 2004 - 504 Seiten
...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...flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood."7 I can stand meekly and receive the blow; but to fawn on the hand that deals it, and kiss the... | |
 | Tristram Stuart - 2007 - 692 Seiten
...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...flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.17 It is easy to construe this passage as an indictment of the treachery of killing domestic... | |
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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. 
