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 ... - Page 44by James Neild - 1802 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse; 320 Stretch'd 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... | |
| Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...* AH little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affhience surround; * . They They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel riot waste; ... .*,,•.A Ah little think they, how many feel, this very moment, death, .. .... %1 , T And all... | |
| James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
....(Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse, ' Stretch'd out , and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah little think the gay licentious proud , Whom pleasure...little think they , while they dance along, How many feel , this very moment , death , And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood,... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround, They who their thoughtless...wanton, often cruel, riot, waste; Ah, little think they, as they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many... | |
| John Coakley Lettsom - Charities - 1801 - 400 pages
...furrpund. ; They, who their thoughtlefs hours in giddy mirth And wanton, often cruel riot, wafte : Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many pine in want, and dungeons glooms, Shut from the common air, and common ufe Qf their own limbs ! ,h ow many drink the... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood,... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood,... | |
| James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless...little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood,... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...cold, Stretch'd out and hleaching in the northern hlast. Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse ! Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood,... | |
| Aphorisms and apothegms - 1803 - 228 pages
...the amorous man is not more suddenly melted with beauty, than the, compassionate man with misery, . Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence -siux round ; ' " *,# They, who their thoughtless hours in gidfy mirth, Su And wanton, often cruel,... | |
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