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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! "
Readings on Poetry - Page 27
by Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 212 pages
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Thoughts on the Poets

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...stranger yet to pain ! How feelingly he anticipates the coming experience of the sporting boys ! . 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...
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Thoughts on the Poets

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...the coming experience of the sporting boys ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play ; f 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 baleful train ! Ah, show them where in...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Mind, Volume 1

Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - 580 pages
...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 ; Ah ! show them, where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band ! Ah ! tell them they are...
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Gray's Poetical Works: English and Latin : Illustrated

Thomas Gray - 1847 - 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, Nor care beyond to-day : Yet see, how all around 'em wait The Ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's...
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Windsor Castle, and Its Environs

Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 380 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, Nor care beyond to day : Yet sce, how all around them wait The ministers of human fate, And black misfortune's...
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Memoirs of Chateaubriand, Vol, Volumes 1-2

François René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1848 - 488 pages
...* » What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball ? ***** Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day. Who has not experienced the feelings and regrets expressed in these lines with...
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Windsor Castle, and Its Environs

Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 392 pages
...vietims 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 baleful train ! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band ! Ah, tell them they are men...
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The tragedies of Sophocles, in Engl. prose. The Oxford tr

Sophocles - 1849 - 376 pages
...bring this my son to my home, and present him to Telamon and my mother, I mean Eriboea4, 1 Ah ! how regardless of their doom The little victims play !...have they of ills to come, No care beyond to-day. — GRAY. 3 Hermann here inserts a line which Brunck on the authority of Stobicivs had omitted, it...
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A Critical History of English Literature: The Restoration to 1800, Volume 3

David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...a more prominent part in the well-known lines from the "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College": 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...
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Whodunnit: A Comedy Thriller

Anthony Shaffer - 1983 - 104 pages
...reconstruct the crime. I want you to play the victim. SERGEANT. Play the victim? INSPECTOR. Exactly. Alas regardless of their doom, the little victims play. No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today, as Thomas Grey has it. Come along, Sergeant, kneel down there. (SERGEANT kneels...
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