 | 1739 - 480 pàgines
...Reafon and Religion " agree in this, and a Man muft want both one «* and the other, to cry out, " O Blindnefs to the Future ! kindly given, *« That each may fill the Circle mark'd by «*- Heav'n. " This fuppofes that if Men had a Fore*' knowledge of their Deftiny, they would do all " they could... | |
 | James I (King of Scotland) - 1783 - 272 pàgines
...flap and play ? Pleas'd to the laft he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand juft raifed to filed his blood. Oh blindnefs ! to the future kindly given,.... '.. . . That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven. on ManXV. • i Thus ftant thy confort in * unfekernefle, And wantis it, y1 fuld the reule... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pàgines
...fkip and play ? Pleas'd to the laft, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his blood, Oh blindnefs to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'nj; Who fees with equal eye, as God! of all, A hero perifh, or a fparrow fall, Atoms or fyftems... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pàgines
...and play ? Plcas'd to the laft, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'cl to ftied his blood. Oh blindnefs to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven; Who fees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perifli, or a fparrow fall ; Atoms or fyftems... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 pàgines
...and play ? Pleas'd to the la ft,- he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his blood. Oh blindnefs to the future ! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n ; Who fees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perifli, or a fparrow fall; Atoms or fyftems into... | |
 | William Enfield - 1805 - 456 pàgines
...Plees'd to tire laft, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand juft rais'd to fhed his blood* O blindnefs to the future! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heav'n; Who fees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perifh, or a fparrow fall; Atoms or fyftems into ruin... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pàgines
...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 by Heaven : Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pàgines
...the last, he crops the flow'ry 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 by heaven ; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pàgines
...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 by Heaven : Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pàgines
...to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. O blindness to the future! kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven ; Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems... | |
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... 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 he skip and play? 
