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: Selected from the Best ...1819 - 252 pagesSnippet view - About this book
| James Thomson - 1730 - 260 pages
...furround ; They, who their thoughtlefs hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riotwafte; j O f Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel this very moment, death And all the fad variety of pain. How many fink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame, How many bleed,... | |
| Eustace Budgell - 1731 - 542 pages
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| James Thomson, Barthold Heinrich Brockes - 1745 - 586 pages
...dance along, 300 How many feel this very moment, Death And all the fad Variety of Pain. How many fink in the devouring Flood, Or more devouring Flame. How many bleed, By fhameful Variance betwixt Man and Man. 305 How many pine in Want, and Dungeon Glooms; Shut from the... | |
| James Thomson - 1757 - 244 pages
...furround ; They, who their thoughtlefs hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot wafte ; 325 Ah little think they, while they dance along. How many feel, this very moment, death And all the fad variety of pain. How many fink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
| James Thomson - 1758 - 238 pages
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| John Newbery - 1762 - 292 pages
...affluence furronnd; They, who their thoughtlefs hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot wafle ; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment death And all the fad variety of pain. His conclufion glows with a ftrain of piety wortKy of a chriftian poet and philofopher,... | |
| James Thomson - 1763 - 458 pages
...furround ; They, who their thoughtlefs hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot wafte; 32 j Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment,- death, And all the fad variety of pain. How many fink in the devouring flood, ' Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
| James Thomson - 1766 - 266 pages
...furround ;• They, who their thoughtlefs hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riotwafte; 325 Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the fad variety of pain. How many fink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
| James Thomson - 1767 - 260 pages
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| James Thomson - 1769 - 218 pages
...furround ; They, who their thoughtlefs hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot wafte; 32? Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel , this very moment , death And all the fad variety of pain. How many fink in the devouring flood , Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
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