 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 Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ... - Page 551by John Platts - 1822 - 764 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Parker (of Cork.) - 1816 - 182 pages
...§rddy mirth - % And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; . Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel this very moment, death, And all the...variance betwixt man and man ; How many pine in want, and dungeon's glooms Shut ftom the common air, and common use Of their own limbs ; how many drink the cup... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 878 pages
...gidd,y mirth, And wanton, often cruel riot, waste : Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms, Shut from the common air, and common Ube Of their own limbs ! how many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1817 - 290 pages
...flood, Or more devouring flames. How many bleed,, îîy shameful variance betwixt man aod matt ! JUow many pine in want and dungeon glooms, ' Shut from the common air aod common use Of their own limbs ! How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, oreat the bitter bread... | |
 | 1818 - 904 pages
...in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel this very moment death, And all the...in the devouring flood Or more devouring flame; how numy bleed By shameful variance betwixt man tad : r> . r.] RevitUHof >'Nm'4tiiKof*tt*-ycani'Re#4e»Cf... | |
 | 1818 - 896 pages
...in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel this very moment death, And all the...sink in the devouring flood Or more devouring flame; bow many bleed By shameful variante betwiit man and raau ; • ljut «if' .Our-4 Hew many pine in want... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...thoughtless hours in giddy And wanton, often cruel riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance alor How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the...devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bl By shameful variance betwixt man and man How many pine in want and dungeon gtooms, Shut from the... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 pages
...in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel riot waste ; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the...the common air, and common use Of their own limbs f How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, urst, Rees, Orme & Brown Hood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine... | |
 | Francis Maceroni - 1820 - 208 pages
...they drive the hirelings forth themselves to seek their liberation. Whilst they who dug the mine " Shut from the common air and 'common use Of their own limbs." — Thomp. no longer gold-enslaved, cast off' the sordid ore and gripe the falchion — roving as free... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel riot, waste ; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel this very moment death, And all the...bleed, , By shameful variance betwixt man and man ! 7. How many pine in want and dungeon glooms, Shut from the common air. and common use Of their own... | |
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