...Plutarch, attributing to Solon what he himself thinks of the gods, he adds malice to blasphemy. — T. * Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims...come, Nor care beyond to-day. Yet see, how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And black misfortune's baleful train; Ah! shew them where in...

...temperate sleeps, and spirits light at air," Pope's Im. of Horace, I. 73 ; and Milton's Par. Lost, v. 3 : Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims...care beyond to-day : Yet see, how all around 'em wait 55 The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train i Ah, show them where in ambush...

...Poetry explained for the use of young Persons." Cheer. — The same in this place as cheerfulness. *' Alas, regardless of their doom The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, No care beyond to.day : Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's...

...thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th' approach of morn. Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, No care beyond to-day : Yet see how all around them wait, The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's...

...ills to come, No care beyond to day : Yet see how all around them wait The ministen of human late, And black misfortune's baleful train \ Ah shew them where in ambush stand To seize their prey the murderous band, Ah '. tell them they are men. SHAKESPEARE AND SPENSER. All the critics upon our immortal...

...victims play ; No sense hare they of ills to come, No care beyond to day : Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And black misfortune's...them where in ambush stand To seize their prey the murderous band. Ah ! tell them they are men. SHAKSPEARE AND SPENCER. All the critics upon our immortal...

...with reluctance and support ' with anguish.' Gray evidently borrows hence his celebrated stanza : " Alas ! regardless of their doom, " The. little victims...have they of ills to come, " Nor care beyond to-day. u Yet see, how all around them wait " The ministers of human fate, " And black misfortune's baleful...

...slumbers light. That fly th" approach of morn. Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little \ictims play ; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care...human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band ! Ah, tell them they are men...

...thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th' approach of morn. Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims...come, Nor care beyond to-day. Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train, Ah, show them where in...

...strains familiar to every reader, he makes a natural and beautiful transition to their future destiny. Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims...play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care heyond to-day ; Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And hlack misfortune's...