 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1828 - 514 pages
...and exhaust its active energies, mankind perish from infancy to age ; Death is ever near — " For see ! 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 ; Ah ! tell them, they... | |
 | 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...of human fate, And black misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band ! Ah, tell them they... | |
 | 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...human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train, Ah, show them where in ambush stand To seize their prey, the murderous band 1 Ah, tell them, they are... | |
 | 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 - 366 pages
...! 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...of human fate And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah! show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey the murderous band ! Ah, tell them they... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
