 | Charities - 1783 - 162 pages
...in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot wade; Ah, little think they, while they dance along, How many pine in want and dungeon glooms, Shut from the common air, and common ufe .Of their own limbs ! How many drink the cup •-Of baleful grief, and eat the bitter bread Of... | |
 | 1785 - 504 pages
...pain : How many fink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame : how many bleed By fliameful variance betwixt man and man ; How many pine in want,...glooms ; • • . Shut from the common air, and common ufe, Of theV own limbs : how many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread of milery.... | |
 | George Anne Bellamy - 1785 - 250 pages
...: " How many fink in the devouring flood, " Or more devouring flame : how many bleed " By fhamcful variance betwixt man and man : " How many pine in...dungeon glooms ; " Shut from the common air, and common ufc " Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup " Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread of rai...... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...of pain: How many fink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame : how many bleed, By fhameful variance betwixt Man and Man : How many pine in want,...dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common ufe Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup : Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of mifery... | |
 | George Anne Bellamy - Actors - 1786 - 262 pages
...and man : " How many pine in want, and dungeons glooms : " Shut from the common air, and common ufe " Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup « Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread of mifery.' 1 am apprehend vce I fhall tire you with this melancholy account of the extreme of defpair,... | |
 | 1788 - 742 pages
...of pain ; Haw many pine in want and dungeon glooms, iia from the common air, and cdmmon ufe Oftfceir own limbs! how many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Ofmifcry! fore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many drink into the ferdid but Of cheerkfs poverty!" Thofe... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 pages
...of pain. . How many fmk in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By fhameful variance 'betwixt Man and Man. How many pine in want,...dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common ufe Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of mifery.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 292 pages
...pain. How many fmk in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, 330 By fh.imeful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want,...dungeon glooms; Shut from the. common air, and common ufe Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or cat the bitter bread 335 Of mifery.... | |
 | 1792 - 530 pages
...the iäd variety of pun ! • .-.,.. How many bleed ¡ Ьу ihr.meful variance b.tvvast nan anl How How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common ufe Of their own limbs ! How many drink • the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of miiery... | |
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...variety of pain. BB 2 How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, 330 By shameful variance betwixt Man and Man. How many...the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread 335 Of misery. Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty.... | |
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Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. 
