 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 moment,...  Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ... - Pagina 262di Lindley Murray, John Walker - 1826 - 304 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pagine
...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 pagine
...THINK THE GAY, LICENTIOUS PROUD. /H ! little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1876 - 666 pagine
...forcibly struck her imagination : — " Ah, little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And want™, often cruel, riot waste; Ah, little think thoy, while thoy dance along, Bow many feel, this... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pagine
...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, How many pine in Want, and dungeon-glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs.... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1877 - 650 pagine
...forcibly •truck her imagination : Ah, littlr think the gay, licentious proud. Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround, They, who their thoughtless...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,... | |
 | William Howitt - 1877 - 732 pagine
...power *nd descriptive eloquence. " Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless...giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah 1 little think they, while they dance along, "How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1879 - 140 pagine
...bleaching in the northern blast. Ah I little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence, surround ; They, who their thoughtless...very moment, death. And all the sad variety of pain. THOMSON. 0 WINTER, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled, Thy... | |
 | James Thomson - 1880 - 548 pagine
...bleaching in the northern blast. Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence, surround ;. They, who their thoughtless...many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon-glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs.... | |
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