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,... Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with ... - Página 414por William Godwin - 1831 - 471 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Cowper - 1851 - 620 páginas
...Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd corse, Streteh'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast.; VAh! 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... | |
| 1852 - 874 páginas
...cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast, H * ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...Lays him along the snow, a stiffened corse — 320 Stretched out, and bleaching in the northern blast. 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 ; 325 Ah ! little... | |
| Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy - 1852 - 502 páginas
...note assume, And sing th' infusive force of spring on man,' &c. and another in Winter, beginning— ' Ah ! little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround.' These passages are excellent, and you ought to be able to say them by heart. Tell Charlotte also not... | |
| 1852 - 588 páginas
...countenance the heart is made better, while by continual mirthfiuness it is hardened —ossified. " Ah I little think the gay, licentious, proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton — often eruel — riot waste ; Ah I... | |
| James Thomson, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 408 páginas
...Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd corse, 820 Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; 823 They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; — Ah... | |
| James Thomson - 1854 - 312 páginas
...Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd Corse, iao Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. 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 ; 326 Ah ! little... | |
| 1855 - 498 páginas
...hand would seize The mighty instrument, and bend its powers To subjugate the age that gave it birth. Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround, That every thought they think, and every word They utter, is conveyed along these wires ; And swift... | |
| William Howitt - 1856 - 596 páginas
...account of the man perishing in the snow, rises to the power and descriptive eloquence of Shakspeare. " Ah ! little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours iu giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 páginas
...INDIFFERENCE OF rLEASCilE-SEEKERS TO НГНАХ MI.-KÍ4V. — VARIOUS FORMS Of WRETCHEDNESS NOTED. sweetness on the desert air. л Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The li ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little... | |
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