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,... Poétique anglaise - Page 332by Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806Full view - About this book
| Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 pages
...the English ; and the interest in the poor is indicated hy these lines ("Winter," 1. 322 et seq.) : " Ah ! little think the gay licentious Proud, Whom pleasure,...And all the sad variety of pain. ***** " How many bleed, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. ***** And how can I forget the generous... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1884 - 604 pages
...following lines so forcibly struck her imagination : — " Ah, little think the gay, licentious crowd Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They...think they, while they dance along, How many feel, tins very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief,... | |
| Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 pages
...LIFE. AH ! little think the gay, licentious, proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround I They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel riot waste ; Ah I little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...2% Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. BUGLE SONG. The splendour falls on castle walls,...in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, 300 And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah, little think they, while they dance along, How many feel,... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1887 - 602 pages
...following lines so forcibly struck her imagination : — " Ah, little think the gay, licentious crowd Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They...moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery, sore pierced by wintry winds ? How... | |
| James Thomson - 1891 - 458 pages
...Lays him along the snows a stiffened corse, 320 Stretched out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...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... | |
| James Thomson - 1891 - 458 pages
...— They, who their thoughtless hours in 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 sad variety of pain: --— ^ v "* How many sink in the devouring flood ' Or more... | |
| Chiel amang the classes and the masses takin' notes - 1891 - 356 pages
...other. IS LIFE WORTH LIVING ? A FEW PLAIN THOUGHTS AND TRUTHS, CONCERNING DIVES AND THE DESTITUTE ! 'Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power and affluence surround; How many pine in want and dungeon gloom, Or eat the bitter bread of misery.' THOMSON. ' This truth... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...HUMAN LIFE. An! little think the gay, licentious, proud, Wlom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround I They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth,...devouring flood, Or more devouring flame : how many bleed. By shameful variance betwixt Man and Man; How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms; Shut from the... | |
| Robert Burns - 1896 - 428 pages
...things, — the sparrows that do not fall to the ground without our Father? " Cf. Thomson, Winter. "Ah, little think the gay, licentious, proud, Whom...along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And see the sad variety of pain." vii. Coleridge applied the moral of these concluding verses to the Ancient... | |
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