 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 頁
...Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their presenVstate : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 The lamb thy riot doom* to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ? rieas'd to... | |
 | George Miller - 1833 - 428 頁
...Essay on Man,"— " Heaven, from all creatures, hides the book of fate ; All but the page prescribed, their present state. From brutes, what men, from men,...spirits know, Or who could suffer being here below ? Oh blindness to the future, kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by Heaven." In the... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 頁
...Present State of Ma*. 1. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below T The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason would he skip and play ? Pleased to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 頁
...thousand years ago. iII. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate ; All but the page prescribed, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 頁
...is as completely so, 75 As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present...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 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...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 81-4). The Poems of Alexander... | |
 | 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...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 An Essay on Man (1734), in The Poems... | |
 | 1847 - 486 頁
...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 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."... | |
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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... 
