 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,...  Our Plague Spot: In Connection with Our Polity and Usages : as Regards Our ... - Halaman 1801859 - 604 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 644 halaman
...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... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 450 halaman
...the English ; and the interest in the poor is indicated hy these lines ("Winter," 1. 322 et seq.) : " Ah ! little think the gay licentious Proud, Whom pleasure,...And all the sad variety of pain. ***** " How many bleed, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty. ***** And how can I forget the generous... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1884 - 629 halaman
...following lines so forcibly struck her imagination : — " Ah, little think the gay, licentious crowd Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They...think they, while they dance along, How many feel, tins very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief,... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 399 halaman
...LIFE. AH ! little think the gay, licentious, proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround I They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel riot waste ; Ah I little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 708 halaman
...2% Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. BUGLE SONG. The splendour falls on castle walls,...in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, 300 And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah, little think they, while they dance along, How many feel,... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1887 - 629 halaman
...following lines so forcibly struck her imagination : — " Ah, little think the gay, licentious crowd Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They...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 ? How... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 436 halaman
...Lays him along the snows a stiffened corse, 320 Stretched out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste, — 325 Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel this very moment death, And all... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 436 halaman
...— They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste, — 325 Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel this very moment death, _^__ ^ And all the sad variety of pain: --— ^ v "* How many sink in the devouring flood ' Or more... | |
 | Chiel amang the classes and the masses takin' notes - 1891 - 338 halaman
...other. IS LIFE WORTH LIVING ? A FEW PLAIN THOUGHTS AND TRUTHS, CONCERNING DIVES AND THE DESTITUTE ! 'Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power and affluence surround; How many pine in want and dungeon gloom, Or eat the bitter bread of misery.' THOMSON. ' This truth... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 633 halaman
...HUMAN LIFE. An! little think the gay, licentious, proud, Wlom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround I They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth,...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... | |
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