 Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment,...  Poems, by Somerville, Pattison, Savage, Broome, and Swift - Page 67by William Somervile - 1811Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...cold, Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse, Stretch'd out, and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms;... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...and bleaching in the northern blast. Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, pow'r, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless...sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms;... | |
 | James Neild - 1802 - 386 pages
...Society for the Discharge and Relief of Small Debtors, In MARCH, 1802. BY JAMES NEILD, ESQ. TREASURER. " Ah ! little think the gay, licentious proud, " Whom...little think they, while they dance along, " How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms, " Shut from the common air, and common use " Of their own limbs !... | |
 | James Neild - 1802 - 384 pages
...for the Discharge and Relief of Small Debtors, In MA R CH, 18O2. BY JAMES NEILD, Esa. TREASURER. " Ah ! little think the gay, licentious proud, " Whom...hours in giddy mirth " And wanton, often cruel, riot w#ste ; " Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, " How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...cold, Stretch'd out and hleaching in the northern hlast. Lays him along the snows, a stiffened corse ! Ah, little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure,...sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many hleed, By shameful variance hetwixt Man and Man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms;... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 330 pages
...furround ; They, who their thoughtlefs hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot wafte ; Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the fad variety of pain. How many fink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame. How many bleed,... | |
 | 1803 - 512 pages
...gay licentious throng, " Whom pleafure, pomps, and affluence furround : " Ah, little think they, as they dance along, " How many feel this very moment death, " And all the fad variety of Vroe." THOMSON. But though they feel not the inclemency of winter ikies, they will one... | |
 | 1803 - 228 pages
...the amorous man is not more suddenly melted with beauty, than the, compassionate man with misery, . Ah ! little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence -siux round ; ' " *,# They, who their thoughtless hours in gidfy mirth, Su And wanton, often cruel,... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...corse, 320 Stretch'd out and bleaching in the northern blast. And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; 325 Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, How...sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame ! how many bleed, 330 By shameful variance betwixt man and man 1 How many pine in want, and dungeon... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...The Muse forbids the virtuous Man to die. ยป MASON. CHAP. XXI. On the Miseries of human Life. J\.n little think the gay licentious proud, "Whom pleasure,...giddy mirth, And wanton , often cruel , riot waste ; A h little think they , while they d.ince along ,, How many feel , this verv moment, death And all... | |
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