 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
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pagina’s
...he wrote, — 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 bis blood. Etsay on Man. D'Israeli has discovered another parallel. " After pausing on the last two... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pagina’s
...when he wrote,— 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 10 shed his blood. Essay on Man. D'Israeli has discovered another parallel. " After pausing on the... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1893 - 622 pagina’s
...lamb, thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play> Pleased to the list he crops the flowery food. And licks the hand just raised to abed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that I should... | |
 | William Minto - 1895 - 578 pagina’s
...that all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me; is invidiously comparing t'ne bounty of the Crown with the deserts of the defender...the knife half out of the sheath— poor innocent ! ' Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just raised to shed h,s blood.'"... | |
 | William Minto - 1895 - 584 pagina’s
...of pieces for roasting, boiling, and stewing, that all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me; is invidiously comparing the bounty...with the deserts of the defender of his order, and iu the same moment fawning on those who have the knife half out of the sheath. — poor innocent !... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 pagina’s
...roasting, boiling, and stewing, that all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring 20 me; is invidiously comparing the bounty of the Crown...the knife half out of the sheath — poor innocent ! " Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, 25 And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood."... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 496 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 hand just«raised to shed his blood. ;• Oh, blindness to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pagina’s
...Ditsipation. God made all pleasures innocent. q. MRS. NORTON — Lady of La. Oaraye. Pt. I. Pleas'd 1 rais'd to shed his blood, r. POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IL 83. Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1898 - 142 pagina’s
...pieces for roasting, 10 boiling, and stewing, that all the while they are measuring him, his Grace is measuring me — is invidiously comparing the bounty...the knife half out of the sheath ? Poor innocent! — 15 " Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his... | |
 | 1899 - 408 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... | |
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