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 ... - Página 219por Lindley Murray - 1810 - 231 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| James Thomson - 1806 - 242 páginas
...bleaching in the northern blast! Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours...giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; 325 Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the... | |
| William Enfield - 1808 - 434 páginas
...ON THE MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE. 4 AH little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours...and Man : How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms j Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup Of baleful grief,... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 páginas
...bleaching in the northern blast. Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours...feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety or pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouriug flame. How many bleed, By shameful... | |
| 1809 - 402 páginas
...in giddy And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little thinV they, while they dance along, Mow many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pnin. How many sink in the devouring Hood, Or more devonring flnme. How many Weed, By shameful variance... | |
| 1810 - 234 páginas
...compassionate man with misery. Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours...shameful variance betwixt man and man — How many piiie in want, and dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs —... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...bleaching in the northern blast. Ah, little 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 fee), this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood,... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 páginas
...bleaching in the northern blast. Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround, They who their thoughtless hours...wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah, little think they, as they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 páginas
...little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and aillucnco surround ; They, whothair thoughtless hours in giddy mirth. And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah, little think tiny, while they dance along', How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.... | |
| William Somervile - 1811 - 312 páginas
...LIFE unfelt by the affluent. Ah little think the gay licentious proud, •whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; they, who their thoughtless hours...sink in the devouring flood, or more devouring flame. Hew many bleed, by shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms;... | |
| James Thomson - 1811 - 182 páginas
...and afflnence snrronnd; They, who their thonghtless honrs in giddy mirth, And wanton, often crnel, riot waste ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance...all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devonring flood, Or more devonring flame. How many bleed, By shamefnl variance betwixt man and man.... | |
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