 | Edward Davies - 1825 - 356 頁
...disguised in any language! The lamh which thy riot dooms to bleed this morning, Had he but thy knowledge, would he skip and play ! Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry pasture, And licks the hand that is just rais'd to shed his blood. In the printed specimens of the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 頁
...thousand years ago. [Fate, 1 1 1. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of All but the page prescrib'd, ir deities, and their own. MILTON. In fable, hymn, o tJie last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. O!i blindness... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 頁
...present state of man. 1 Heav'n from all creatures, hides the book of fate .; All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, .from...to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pjeas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. 2... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 頁
...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... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 頁
...and in the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath - poor innocent! Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flowr'y food And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.18 No man lives too long, who lives to do with spirit, and suffer with resignation, what Providence... | |
 | Andrew H. Miller - 1995 - 260 頁
...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...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 81-4). The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed.... | |
 | Andrew J. Davis - 1996 - 428 頁
...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 reason, would he skip and play ' Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, Anil licks the hand just raised to shed his blood."... | |
 | Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 436 頁
...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 頁
...[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...flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.7 An Essay on Man (1734), in The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt (New Haven: Yale University... | |
 | Owen Lovejoy - 2004 - 504 頁
...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 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."7... | |
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Heaven 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, would... 
