 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 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, No care beyond to-day : Yet see how all around them wait, The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's... | |
 | Varieties - 1819 - 774 pages
...with reluctance and support ' with anguish.' Gray evidently borrows hence his celebrated stanza : " Alas ! regardless of their doom, " The. little victims...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 black misfortune's baleful... | |
 | 1819 - 504 pages
...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 baleful train ! Ah shew them where in ambush stand To seize their prey the murderous band. Ah ! tell them they are men.... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambush stand To seize their prey the murth'rous band ! Ah ! tell them, they are... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 498 pages
...latitia exsequi. See also on this subject Gray's fine Ode on a distant Prospect of Eton College : — Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims...human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murth'rous band ! Ah, tell them they are... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 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 them wait The ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful train, Ah, show them where in... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1821 - 300 pages
...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... | |
 | 1842 - 604 pages
...observed in their proceedings on all occasions. 206 ) RECOLLECTIONS OF ETON. BY AN ETONIAN. CHAP. III. Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play ; 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...Wit, Invention ever-new, And lively Cheer, of Vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, N The spirits pure, the slumbers light, Alas ! regardless...have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day : Tet see, how all around them wait The Ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's haleful train... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 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 play! No sense have they of ills to comc, Yet see, how all around them wait The Ministers of human fate, And black Misfortune's baleful... | |
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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! 
