| Sophocles - 1823 - 228 pages
...me, such a watchful protector in Teucer shall I leave for thee, an unwearied g guardian I " Ah ! how regardless of their doom The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, No care beyond to-day." GRAY. of thy nurture, although at present he is gone far out of sight, busied... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th' approach of morn. Alas ! regardless of their doomj 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... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...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...human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambnah stand, To seize their prey, the murth'rons band ' Ah, tell them they are... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th' approach of mom. p 8/X 8/ @ 8/ them wait The ministers of human fate, And black misfortune's baleful train. Ah, show them where in... | |
| Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...understand the word."- — JOHNSON. The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly the approach of morn. 50 Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims...come, Nor care beyond to-day : Yet see how all around them wait 55 The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 358 pages
...who recommended such a girl as a fit companion for her blameless and beloved pupils. CHAPTER VII. " Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play : No sense have they of ills to come, No care beyond to-day." GRAY. GOOD legislators always attend to the habits, and what is called the... | |
| J. Coad - Fishing - 1826 - 264 pages
...pretty and graceful insect are these lines of Gray's Ode, on a distant prospect of Eton College — " Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims...beyond to-day ; Yet see how all around 'em wait, The ambushed ministers of fate. While engaged alternately by them and the noble and beautiful scenery opening--... | |
| English literature - 1825 - 600 pages
...Invention ever new. And lively cheer, of Vigour born : Alas! regardless of their doom, The little rictlms play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day. In short, the spirit of Gray's admirable Ode pervades the performance. But we must not omit to mention,... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...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...human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambush stand To seize their prey the murth'rous band ! Ah ! tell them, they are... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...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 heyond to day : Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's... | |
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