 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
 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...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...devouring flood, Or more devouring flame : how many bleed, 330 By shameful variance betwixt man and man : How many pine in want and dungeon-glooms, Shut from... | |
 | Adonijah Strong Welch - 1873 - 296 pages
...giddy mirth, 325 And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the...of pain : , How many sink in the devouring flood, 330 Or more devouring flame ; how many bleed, ' By shameful variance betwixt man and man : How many... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...Their period finish'd ere 'tis well begun. THOMSON. Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain ! THOMSON: Seasons. The best Are, by the playful children of this world, At once forgot, as they had... | |
 | Anne S. Bushby - 1876 - 442 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 sad variety of pain. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery. How many shrink into the sordid... | |
 | H. Colson - 1876 - 224 pages
...I wish he had been there." CHAPTER IX. CONVERSATION AT THE TITTLE-TATTLE CLUB. Ah ! little think we How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. THOMSON. mR. Bountiful had come home to die. There was no escaping this conviction. lie had kept away... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...and 'midst abundance died — Sorest of evils! died of utter want. — Pollok. 2490. MISERY. Human here will be tears, and fears, and sorrow ; And then, a loving Saviour drawing nigher, dungeon-glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1877 - 650 pages
...And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah, little think they, while they dance along, How many fuel, this very 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, Low... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...Their period finish'd ere 'tis well begun. THOMSON. Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain ! • THOMSON : Seasons. The best Are, by the playful children of this world, At once forgot, as they... | |
 | 1879 - 140 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 sad variety of pain. THOMSON. 0 WINTER, ruler of the inverted year, Thy scattered hair with sleet like ashes filled, Thy... | |
 | James Thomson - 1880 - 548 pages
...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...variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon-glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup... | |
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