 Cross, alive as he is, and thinking no harm in the world, he is divided into rumps, and sirloins, and briskets, and into all sorts of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing, that, all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me, —...  A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With ... - Pagina 182door George Croly - 1840Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1847 - 526 pagina’s
...Fables. 5. The lamb thy riot dooms to death 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 rais'd to spill his blood. POPE'S Essay on Man. 6. Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pagina’s
...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 rais'd to shed his blood. Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pagina’s
...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 rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pagina’s
...below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd Snow-hill rais'd to shed his blood. Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1854 - 838 pagina’s
...of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing — that all the time they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me; is invidiously comparing the bounty...the defender of his order, and in the same moment fcwning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath — poor innocent, " Plens'd to the last... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1854 - 586 pagina’s
...of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing—that all the time they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me; is invidiously comparing the bounty...the defender of his order, and in the same moment fcwning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath —poor innocent, " Pleas'd to the last... | |
 | Samuel Gilman - 1856 - 580 pagina’s
...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 hii blood." Amidst toils like these came forth the large flapped, weather-stained, round, and low-crowned... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pagina’s
...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 rais'd to shed his blood. O blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pagina’s
...here ' below ? 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 jnst raised to shed his blood. Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given That each may fill the circle... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pagina’s
...being here below ? 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 handjust raised to shed his blood. Oh! blindness to the future! kindly given, That each may fill the... | |
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