 Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ;— Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very...  The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ... - Pàgina 219per Lindley Murray - 1810 - 231 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1872 - 710 pàgines
...love, till in our eyes This heart's Hell seems Paradise. Percy Bysshe Shelley. 3317. MISERY, Ниши, With 22. dungeonglooms ; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs. How many drink the Of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pàgines
...SUFFERINGS IN WINTER. Ah! little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and nliluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy...moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How mitny sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt... | |
 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pàgines
...blast. Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround ; 323 They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And...devouring flood, Or more devouring flame : how many bleed, 330 By shameful variance betwixt man and man : How many pine in want and dungeon-glooms, Shut from... | |
 | Adonijah Strong Welch - 1873 - 296 pàgines
...Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, 325 And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little...of pain : , How many sink in the devouring flood, 330 Or more devouring flame ; how many bleed, ' By shameful variance betwixt man and man : How many... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 588 pàgines
...dell Its thunder-splintered pinnacle." SCOTT'S Lady of tJie Lake. Canto i. "Ah ! little think they as they dance along, How many feel this very moment,...devouring flame. How many bleed By shameful variance between man and man, How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms, Shut from the common air, and common... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pàgines
...Our drooping days are dwindled down to nought, Their period finish'd ere 'tis well begun. THOMSON. Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How...very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain ! THOMSON: Seasons. The best Are, by the playful children of this world, At once forgot, as they had... | |
 | Anne S. Bushby - 1876 - 442 pàgines
...THINK THE GAY, LICENTIOUS PROUD. /H ! little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours...moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery. How many shrink into the sordid... | |
 | H. Colson - 1876 - 224 pàgines
...I wish he had been there." CHAPTER IX. CONVERSATION AT THE TITTLE-TATTLE CLUB. Ah ! little think we How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. THOMSON. mR. Bountiful had come home to die. There was no escaping this conviction. lie had kept away... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pàgines
...and 'midst abundance died — Sorest of evils! died of utter want. — Pollok. 2490. MISERY. Human here will be tears, and fears, and sorrow ; And then, a loving Saviour drawing nigher, dungeon-glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1877 - 650 pàgines
...forcibly •truck her imagination : Ah, littlr think the gay, licentious proud. Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround, They, who their thoughtless hours...little think they, while they dance along, How many fuel, this very moment death, And all the sad variety of pain : How many drink the cup Of baleful grief,... | |
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