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
| James Thomson, Thomas Parnell - Thomson, James, 1700-1748 - 1808 - 338 pages
...him along the snows , a stiffened corse , Stretch'd out , and bleaching in the northern blast. Alt little think the gay licentious proud , Whom pleasure...surround ; They , who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirtb, And wanton , often cruel , riot waste ; Ah little think they , while they dance along , How... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...in giddy And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little thinV they, while they dance along, Mow many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pnin. How many sink in the devouring Hood, Or more devonring flnme. How many Weed, By shameful variance... | |
| Conduct of life - 1810 - 234 pages
...that the amorous man is not more suddenly melted with beauty, than the compassionate man with misery. Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom...flood, Or more devouring flame. — How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man — How many piiie in want, and dungeon glooms ; Shut from... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...bleaching in the northern blast. Ah, little thinks the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'rund affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...Lays him along the snows, a still'en'd corse, Stretch 'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...little think they, while they dance along, How many fee), this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood,... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 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...wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah, little think they, as they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and aillucnco surround ; They, whothair thoughtless hours in giddy mirth. And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah, little think tiny, while they dance along', How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...the relish of their souls. CHAP. IV. Pathetic Pieces* SECTION I. Reflections on the Miseries of Life. Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...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 Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...corse, stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. THE EVILS OF LIFE unfelt by the affluent. Ah little think the gay licentious proud, •whom...sink in the devouring flood, or more devouring flame. Hew many bleed, by shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms;... | |
| James Thomson - 1811 - 182 pages
...and afflnence snrronnd; They, who their thonghtless honrs in giddy mirth, And wanton, often crnel, riot waste ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance...all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devonring flood, Or more devonring flame. How many bleed, By shamefnl variance betwixt man and man.... | |
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