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" 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 332
by Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806
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English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

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...
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The Children of the Abbey: A Tale

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,...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English and American Poetry from Chaucer to ...

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...
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British Classical Authors. Select Specimens of the National Literature of ...

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,...
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The Children of the Abbey: A Tale

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...
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The Seasons: And The Castle of Indolence

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...
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The Seasons: And The Castle of Indolence

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...
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A Nineteenth Century Satire: With Other Rhymes for Other Times

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...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry

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...
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Select Poems of Robert Burns

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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