 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!  Readings on Poetry - Sivu 27tekijä(t) Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 212 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Herodotus - 1814 - 422 sivua
...victims play; 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...them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous band: Ah! tell them they are men. Gray. « The term of human life to extend to twenty yean,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 sivua
...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, No 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... | |
 | 1819 - 504 sivua
...victims play ; No sense hare 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...them where in ambush stand To seize their prey the murderous band. Ah ! tell them they are men. SHAKSPEARE AND SPENCER. All the critics upon our immortal... | |
 | Varieties - 1819 - 774 sivua
...with reluctance and support ' with anguish.' Gray evidently borrows hence his celebrated stanza : " Alas ! regardless of their doom, " The. little victims play; " No sense 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 sivua
...thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th' approach of mom. 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... | |
 | 1842 - 604 sivua
...observed in their proceedings on all occasions. 206 ) RECOLLECTIONS OF ETON. BY AN ETONIAN. CHAP. III. Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims...come, No care beyond to-day. Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And black misfortune's baneful train ' Ah ! shew them where... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 sivua
...Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little \ictims play ; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day: Yet see, how all around 'em wait...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 are men... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 sivua
...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, Nor care beyond to-day. Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1821 - 300 sivua
...strains familiar to every reader, he makes a natural and beautiful transition to their future destiny. Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care heyond to-day ; Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And hlack misfortune's... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 sivua
...d6om, The little victims play ; No sense have they of ills to conic, Nor care beyond to-day: Yet sec, how all around 'em wait The ministers 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 arc men... | |
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