 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...  Murray's English Reader - Page 262by Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 304 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Adonijah Strong Welch - 1873 - 296 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
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