 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,...  Poëmes ou morceaux détachés de differens auteurs anglais, traduits en vers ... - Page 330by Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure Hood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 pages
...COWPER. THE MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE. Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1821 - 280 pages
...and bleaching in the northern blast Ah, little think ye gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless...many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flames. How many bleed By shameful variance betwixt man and man ! How many pine in want and dungeon... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 pages
...cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiften'd corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...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... | |
 | William Pinnock - Readers (Elementary) - 1822 - 252 pages
...spread out. Bliss, s. happiness, joy arising from the possession of some great and important good. AH ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste : L 4 2. Ah ! little think they while they dance along, How many feel, that very moment, death, And... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...trouble of inquiring them out? — Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless...waste ; Ah! little think they, while they dance along, iy. 4 F How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain ! How many sink in... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 318 pages
...bleaching in the northern blast. 6. Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, WTiom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround; They who their thoughtless...riot, waste; Ah little think they, while they dance alongr. How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain ! How many sink in... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 402 pages
...An ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround ; They, wko their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton,...devouring flood, Or more devouring flame : how many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt Man and Man : Ho'w many pine in want, and dungeon glooms ; Shut from the... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...With smiling patience in her looks, she went To glean Palemon's fields. 2. MISEBIES OF HUMAN LIFE. Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And nil the sad variety of pain ; How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame : how many... | |
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