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,... New Monthly Belle Assemblée - Página 831836Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1865 - 582 páginas
...their young mother carried them forth, for the first time in her life, to ask charity in the streets ! 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...stilfen'd corse — Stretch d out, aud bleaching in the northern blast THE VARIOUS SUFFERINGS IN WINTER. 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... | |
| Daniel Hart - 1866 - 268 páginas
...devoid of all prejudice existed, and by their united exertions the poor derived considerable advantage Ah ! little think the gay, licentious proud Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirths, And wanton, often cruel riot, waste ; Ah ! little... | |
| James Thomson - 1869 - 178 páginas
...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, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, olen cruel, riot waste ; 335 Ah ! little... | |
| Alphonse Leclaire - 1870 - 956 páginas
...TRACADIE. Ah ! Utile think the gay licencions proud, Whom pleasure, power and afifluence surround... Ahf! little think they while they dance along... How many pine ?... how many drink the cup Of bateful grief!... how many shake With ail the fiercer tortures of the mind ! (THOMPSON'S SEASONS, Tlie... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 páginas
...sympathiser's relief. Dr. Smith may be supposed to have had in view Thomson's celebrated passage: " 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... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 páginas
...sympathiser's relief. Dr. Smith may be supposed to have had in view Thomson's celebrated passage : " 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... | |
| comte François Xavier de Maistre - 1873 - 108 páginas
...The Leper closed and fastened the gate. END OF THE LEPER OF AOSTA. LE LEPREUX DE LA CITE D'AOSTE. " Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...think they, while they dance along, How many pine 1 how many drink the cup Of baleful grief ! how many shake With all the fiercer tortures of the mind... | |
| Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 páginas
...uxor Optima, nee dulces occurrent oscula nati Prseripere. and compare Gray's Elegy. HUMAN SELFISHNESS. 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... | |
| Adonijah Strong Welch - 1873 - 296 páginas
...Stretch 'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. REFLECTIONS ON HUMAN POVERTY AND WRETCHEDNESS. Ah I little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, 325 And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah ! little... | |
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