 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,...  The English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry, from the Best Writers ... - Página 217de Lindley Murray - 1827 - 252 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton,...very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. Ibid — Winter, Ah ! whither now are fled Those dreams of greatness ? those unsolid hopes Of happiness... | |
 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 páginas
...little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround ; 323 They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And wanton,...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...! little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton,...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...Ah, littlr think the gay, licentious proud. Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround, They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth. And wanton,...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 páginas
...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 1 little think they, while they dance along, "How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad... | |
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