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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! "
Elegy Written in Country Churchyard and Other Poems - Page 96
by Thomas Gray - 1853 - 186 pages
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly the 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...
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The Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendrake, Esq. [pseud., I.e. J. Coad] in ...

Esq. Gregory GREENDRAKE (pseud. [i.e. J. Coad? or Henry Brereton Cody?]), J. Coad - Fishing - 1832 - 334 pages
...are these lines of Gray's Ode, on a distant prospect of Eton College— " Alas, regardless of tbeir doom, The little victims play! No sense have they...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...
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Reminiscences of Spain: The Country, Its People, History, and ..., Volume 1

Caleb Cushing - Spain - 1833 - 326 pages
...thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly the 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. GKAY. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky,...
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Poetic gems: partly original; but chiefly selected from the best authors: by ...

Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 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 beyond to-day : Yet see, how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's...
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Tragedies: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes

Sophocles - 1833 - 480 pages
...feeling nought r is centred the sweetest life ', until thou learn to know what pleasure ' Ah ! how regardless of their doom The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, No care beyond to-day. Gray. * Hermann here inserts a line which Brunck on the authority of Stob;eus...
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Tales and Novels: Murad the Unlucky. The manufacturers. The contrast. The ...

Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 516 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...
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Tales and Novels, Volumes 9-10

Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 486 pages
...such a girl as a fit companion for her blameless and beloved pupils. CHAPTER VII. "Alls! regardless nf 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...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light That fly the approach of mom. Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims...of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train I Ah ! show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous band I Ah ! tell them they...
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Essai sur la littérature anglaise et considérations sur le génie ..., Volume 1

François-René de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 392 pages
...enthrall ? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle'9 speed, Or urge the flying bail ? Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims...have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day. " Heureuses collines, charmans bocages, champs aimés " en vain, où jadis mon enfance insouciante...
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Lectures to Young People in Manufacturing Villages

Dorus Clarke - Sermons, English - 1836 - 228 pages
...fancy fed, Less pleasing when possess'd ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast. Alas ! regardless of their doom The little victims...have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day." Such is the description, which the poet gives of a class of youth, who were sent to the groves of Academus...
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