 | Ireland - 1828 - 216 pages
...to a fearful length in this country, but also in lands more favoured, and under skies more genial. " Alas! regardless of their doom, " The little victims play; " No sense have they of ills to come, " No care beyond to-day !"» » Gray. To crown the scene, sundry tabbies were basking in the sun, as... | |
 | Ireland - 1828 - 212 pages
...to a fearful length in this country, but also in lands more favoured, and under skies more genial. " Alas ! regardless of their doom, " The little victims play ; "No sense have they of ills to come, " No care beyond to-day !"* * Gray. To crown the scene, sundry tabbies were basking in the sun, as... | |
 | Isaac Wilson - 1829 - 392 pages
...their abundant charity, are " Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep." • NUMBER 10. " Alas ! regardless of their doom, " The little victims play ; " No sense have they of ills to come, " No care beyond to-day."— GRAY. WHENEVER I see a number of " playful children just let loose from... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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...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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...slumbers light, That fly th' approach of morn. Alas, regardless of their doom. The little victims play I No sense have they of ills to 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...light, That fly the approach of morn. Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims piny ; Ko e and depart. The waves come with joy around thee:' y bathe thy l bow all around 'em wait The ministers of human fatet And black Mtefortnue'e baleful train ! Ah, shew... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Belief and doubt - 1831 - 254 pages
...strains familiar to every reader, he makes a natural and beautiful transition to their future destiny. Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims...they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day ; Yet sec bow all around them wait The ministers of human fato, And black misfortune's baleful train ! Ah... | |
 | David Booth - English language - 1831 - 408 pages
...that which, preceded by one of four lines, constitutes so elegant a compound in the hands of Gray: Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor cares beyond to-day ; Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's... | |
 | Henry John Crickitt Blake - 1831 - 166 pages
...chickens, and plum puddings, and I do not recollect that it was ever varied in any respect. CHAPTER III. 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... | |
 | Henry John Crickitt Blake - 1831 - 170 pages
...victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, No care beyond to day. Yet sec how all around them wait, The ministers of human fate, And black misfortune's baleful train! Ah ! shew them where in ambush stand To seize their prey, the murderous band ! Gray's Distant Prospect... | |
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Alas! regardless of their doom The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see how all around 'em wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train! 
