 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,...  An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State, of the Society for the ... - Seite 44von James Neild - 1802 - 363 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 Seiten
...out, and bleaching in the northern blast Ah! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure1, 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, death, And... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 Seiten
...music, paused in the midst of his solemn strain, and exclaimed in pensive and melting numbers — " Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround, How many pine in want. Sore pierced by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 504 Seiten
...are given up to all the furious passions, or are for ever the prey of repining and depression. 2 E Ah, little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power and affluence surround, How many pine in want! How many shrink Into the sordid hut, how many drink The cup of grief, and eat... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 614 Seiten
...are given up to all the furious passions, or are for ever the prey of repining and depression. 2 E Ah, little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power and affluence surround, How many pine in want ! How many shrink Into the sordid hut, how many drink The cup of grief, and eat... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 Seiten
...nerve air, (AI Stretcli'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. 46 NO. 139. THE THOUGHTLESS GAY. AH little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...affluence surround, They, who their thoughtless hours in g;ddy mirth. And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; Ah little think they, while they dance along, Or... | |
 | 1832 - 548 Seiten
...MOUNTAINS. « By Mrs. Godwin. " Ah ! little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, powen, 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, death, And all... | |
 | 1834 - 330 Seiten
...are as it were feeding upon ashes, and their tears their drink. Well, indeed, hath the poet said : " Ah ! little think the gay, licentious, proud, Whom...affluence surround, They, who their thoughtless hours on giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste — Ah ! little think they while they dance along,... | |
 | Bishop Gregory Thurston Bedell - 1834 - 368 Seiten
...are as it were feeding upon ashes, and their tears their drink. Well, indeed, hath the poet said : " Ah ! little think the gay, licentious, proud, Whom...affluence surround, They, who their thoughtless hours on giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste — Ah ! little think they while they dance along,... | |
 | 1834 - 24 Seiten
...constant claims every humane minded man must feel made upon him in a parish of very moderate extent. " Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround — Ah, little think they while they dance along, How many feel this very moment death, And all tlie... | |
 | 1836 - 382 Seiten
...stands still. 84 THE LEPER OF AOSTA. THE LEPER OF AOSTA. FROM THE FRENCH OF COUNT XAVIER DE MAISTRE. " Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround — Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many pine ! How many drink the cup Of baleful... | |
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