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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. "
Herodotus, tr., with notes, by W. Beloe - Page 65
by Herodotus - 1812
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Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces, Volume 8

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...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

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...
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The Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendrake, Esq., Pseud. in Ireland

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...
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The Poetical Works

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...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

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...
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Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions and on Other Subjects

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...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

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,...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 87

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,...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

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...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

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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