 | Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 426 pages
...recommended such a girl as a fit companion for her blameless and beloved pupils. VOL. II. M CHAPTER VII. 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...thoughtless day, the easy night. The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th' approach of mornAlas ! - coine, Nor care beyond to-day : Yet sec, how all arround 'em wait The ministers of human fate, And... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly tb' approach of morn. Alas, rcsardless ther sevk his merits to disclose, Or draw his fiailties from their dread abode, (There they to (iay. Yet see how all around them wait Hie ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 478 pages
...days. The whole seventy years will therefore consist of twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty * 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 ! shew them where... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1813 - 408 pages
...recommended such a girl as a fit companion for her blameless and beloved pupils. VOL. II. 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... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1814 - 422 pages
...Plutarch, attributing to Solon what he himself thinks of the gods, he adds malice to blasphemy. — T. * 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! shew them where in... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...Poetry explained for the use of young Persons." Cheer. — The same in this place as cheerfulness. *' 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 'em wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 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... | |
 | Varieties - 1819 - 774 pages
...with reluctance and support ' with anguish.' Gray evidently borrows hence his celebrated stanza : " Alas ! regardless of their doom, " The. little victims...have they of ills to come, " Nor care beyond to-day. u Yet see, how all around them wait " The ministers of human fate, " And black misfortune's baleful... | |
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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! 
