 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 Seiten
...flies our summer, swift our autumn's fled, When youth, and love, and spring, and golden joys are gone. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state. Know then this truth, enough for man te know ; Virtue alone is happiness... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1816 - 606 Seiten
...life, or at least of the sen'secf pain. Mr. Pope has finely descrihed this in his ethic epistles;' • The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to.day, Had he thy reason, wonld he skip and play! . Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry fond, And licks the hand jnst rais'd... | |
 | 1816 - 782 Seiten
...is upon the earth ; aquatick are thofe, whofe conftant abode is upon the water. Locke. — Hcav'n. from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prcfcrib'd this prcfent ft.ite ; From brutes what men, from men what fpirits know ; Or who could fuller... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1817 - 290 Seiten
...YINP1CATED IN THE PRESENT STATE OF from ail creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could suflfer being here beloxr ? The lamb thy riot doiuns to bleed to day, Pad he <hy reason, would he skip... | |
 | 1830 - 990 Seiten
...such books as these. The motto, I see, is from Pope. I daresay, very much to the purpose. (Reads.) " The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he sport and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops his flowery food, And licks the hand" Bless us, is that... | |
 | 1817 - 314 Seiten
...taught, And learn, though late, the genuine cause of all. Covjper. THE PRESENT STATE OF MAN VINDICATED. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate ( All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know; Or who could suffer... | |
 | Richard Marks - 1818 - 232 Seiten
...bitterness of sorrow, and crush them to the grave. Hence we can perceive in what compassion " 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 what spirits know, Or who would suffer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 Seiten
...from men what spirits know Or who could suffer heing here helow ? 60 The lamh thy riut dooms to hleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he erops the flowery food, And licks me hand just raised to shed his hlood. Oh hlindness to the futore... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 Seiten
...thousand years ago. [Fate, III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescrib'd, st magnificence Of royal Theseus, and his large ? Pleas'd to the la>t, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just ruis'd to shed his blood.... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1820 - 330 Seiten
...of life, or at least of the sense of pain. Mr. Pope has finely described this in his ethic epistles: The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and p'ay ? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, .And licks HIP hand just rais'd to shed his Mood.... | |
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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,... 
