 | Goold Brown - 1848 - 324 pages
...Fierce drags the bleating prey, ne'er drunk her milk, Nor wore her warming fleece." — Thomson. " That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven, Who...eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall." — Pope. " And heaven behelds its iimge in his breast." — Id. OBs. g. — When the antecedent is... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - 1848 - 668 pages
...In the system of that Almighty Being, without whose notice not a sparrow falls to the ground:— ' Who sees with equal eye as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall: Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world':— " Iii the system of the Almighty One, no action... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - 1848 - 654 pages
...system of that Almighty Being, without whose notice not a sparrow falls to the ground: — ' Who steea with equal eye as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall : Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now u bubble burst, and uow a world' : — " In the system of the Almighty One, no action... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...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 flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Oh, blindless to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven ; Who sees with... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...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, would...future! kindly given, That each may fill the circle rnark'd by Heav'n : Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1849 - 326 pages
...of a passage depended on a word ; for instance, said he, apostrophizing the sheep — " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, his flowery food he crops, And licks the hand that cuts him into chops !" Leigh Hunt, had he done nothing... | |
 | James Murphey - 1850 - 280 pages
...does not concern them. Pope has expressed this thought happily in the Essay on Man : " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day ; Had he thy reason would...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Essay on Man, Ep. I., s. 3. The enjoyment of hours, days, weeks, months, and years, are terminated... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...sagacious of animals ; but if the poet be correct, it is more considerate than man : — The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. — POPE. Look at man, who knows he must die, and cannot tell when, or how soon, and observe how little... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...brutes what men, from men what 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? Pleased to the last, he crops the tiowcry food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 324 pages
...prey, ne cr drunk her milk, Nor wore her warming fleece." — Thomson. " That each may fill the cirele mark'd by Heaven, Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall." — Pope. " And heaven beholds its image in his breast." — Id. OBS. 8. — When the antecedent is... | |
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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. 
