 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!  The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Side 14av Thomas Gray - 1851 - 223 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Samuel Bailey - 1831 - 254 sider
...strains familiar to every reader, he makes a natural and beautiful transition to their future destiny. Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims...they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day ; Yet sec bow all around them wait The ministers of human fato, And black misfortune's baleful train ! Ah... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 366 sider
...play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor cares 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 murderous band ! Ah, tell them they are men. A five-lined Stanza has been sometimes... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 408 sider
...that which, preceded by one of four lines, constitutes so elegant a compound in the hands of Gray: Alas ! regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor cares beyond to-day ; Yet see how all around them wait The ministers of human fate And black Misfortune's... | |
 | Henry John Crickitt Blake - 1831 - 166 sider
...chickens, and plum puddings, and I do not recollect that it was ever varied in any respect. CHAPTER 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... | |
 | Herodotus, William Beloe - 1831 - 524 sider
...Prospect of Eton College : — Alas ! regardless nf their doom, The little victims play ; No sense haie 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 ! Ah ! show them where in ambush... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sider
...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 them wait The ministers of human fate And black misfortune's baleful train! Ah, show them where in... | |
 | J. Coad - 1832 - 334 sider
...are these lines of Gray's Ode, on a distant prospect of Eton College— " Alas, regardless of tbeir doom, The little victims play! No sense have they...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 scenery... | |
 | Caleb Cushing - 1833 - 326 sider
...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 come, No care beyond to-day. GKAY. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky,... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 sider
...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... | |
 | Sophocles - 1833 - 480 sider
...feeling nought r is centred the sweetest life ', until thou learn to know what pleasure ' Ah ! how regardless of their doom The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, No care beyond to-day. Gray. * Hermann here inserts a line which Brunck on the authority of Stob;eus... | |
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