| 1739 - 480 Seiten
...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... | |
| James I (King of Scotland) - 1783 - 272 Seiten
...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 and gye,... | |
| William Enfield - 1785 - 460 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 into ruin... | |
| James Lackington - 1794 - 346 Seiten
...laft, he crops flie flow'ry food,. And licks the hand juft rais'd to fbed his blood'.. Oh, blindnefs to the future kindly given, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n. Dr. Moore in his travels through France, Switzerland and Germany, relates the following remarkable... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1804 - 452 Seiten
...admiration, " 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." After having paused over such fine verses, may we admit the fonjecture,... | |
| Theophilus Lindsey - 1805 - 338 Seiten
...would he skip and piny? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'// food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. Oh ! blindness to the future, kindly given, That each may till the circle inark'd by hea\'n ! Essay on Jllan. £pi We, also, as partakers of the same nature... | |
| William Enfield - 1805 - 456 Seiten
...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... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 Seiten
...admiration. " 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 raised to shed his blood." After pausing on the last two fine verses, will not the reader smile that I should conjecture the image... | |
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