 Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train!  The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 14by Thomas Gray - 1851 - 223 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 lehte
...thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th' approach of morn. Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, No care beyond to-day : Yet see how all around them wait, The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's... | |
 | Varieties - 1819 - 774 lehte
...with reluctance and support ' with anguish.' Gray evidently borrows hence his celebrated stanza : " Alas ! regardless of their doom, " The. little victims...have they of ills to come, " Nor care beyond to-day. u Yet see, how all around them wait " The ministers of human fate, " And black misfortune's baleful... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 lehte
...thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th' approach of mom. Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims...care beyond to-day : Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambush stand... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 498 lehte
...latitia exsequi. See also on this subject Gray's fine Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College : — Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims...care beyond to-day : Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambush stand,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 lehte
...thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th' approach of morn. Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims...come, Nor care beyond to-day. Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train, Ah, show them where in... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 lehte
...slumbers light. That fly th" approach of morn. Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little \ictims play ; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see, how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train! Ah, show them where in ambush stand,... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1821 - 300 lehte
...strains familiar to every reader, he makes a natural and beautiful transition to their future destiny. Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims...play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care heyond to-day ; Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And hlack misfortune's... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 lehte
...play ; No sense have they of ills to conic, Nor care beyond to-day: Yet sec, how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's...baleful train! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band ! Ah, tell them they arc men ! These shall the fury Passions tear,... | |
 | 1842 - 604 lehte
...observed in their proceedings on all occasions. 206 ) RECOLLECTIONS OF ETON. BY AN ETONIAN. CHAP. III. Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play ; No sense have they of ills to come, No care beyond to-day. Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And black misfortune's... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 lehte
...Cheer, of Vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, N The spirits pure, the slumbers light, Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims...have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day : Tet see, how all around them wait The Ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's haleful train... | |
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