...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...

...their doom The little 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...

...Prospect of Eton College : — Alas ! regardless nf their doom, The little victims play ; No sense haie 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 ! Ah ! show them where in...

...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...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 are...

...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...come, Nor care 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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...between Gray's speaking picture, and Michael Angelo's silent poem. The former invocates his readers to See, how all around them wait The ministers of human fate; And black Misfortune's baleful train : He shows them, where in ambush stand To seize their prey, a murth'rous band : And tells them they...

...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...