| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 358 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...Alas, regardless of their doom, The little vietims play ! No sense have they of ills to eome, Nor eare in, Without fair eulture's kind parental aid, Without enlivening suns, and genia blaek misfortune's baleful train. Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous... | |
| J. Coad - Fishing - 1826 - 264 pages
...pretty and graceful insect are these lines of Gray's Ode, on a distant prospect of Eton College — " Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims...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... | |
| Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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 'em wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where in... | |
| English poetry - 1826 - 310 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...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... | |
| Samuel Bailey - Belief - 1826 - 350 pages
...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...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... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1826 - 548 pages
...passions tear, The vultures of the mind," says Gray, on thinking of a group of happy children ; \ " For see, how all around them wait, The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train ; Oh ! show them, where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band ! Oh ! tell them,... | |
| English literature - 1825 - 600 pages
...Invention ever new. And lively cheer, of Vigour born : Alas! regardless of their doom, The little rictlms play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day. In short, the spirit of Gray's admirable Ode pervades the performance. But we must not omit to mention,... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 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...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, shew them where in... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 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 heyond to day : Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's... | |
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