...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...

...page prescrib'd, 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...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. O...

...page prescrib'd, their present state ; From beasts what men, from men what angels know, Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms...to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the luscious food, And licks the hand that's rais'd to shed his blood."...

...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 the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood....

...present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below T The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. 2. Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle marked by heaven ; Who...

...state; From 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 ? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood....

...order, and in the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath? Poor innocent! "Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, /...And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood." Thus Burke's Letter nears its conclusion at a very different level from where it began. What we may...

...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 Reason, would he 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...

...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...

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