Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death, And all the sad variety of pain. How many sink in the devouring flood, Or more devouring flame ! how many bleed, By shameful variance betwixt man and man. The Seasons - Page 145by James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Thomson - 1730 - 260 pages
...betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms; Shut from the common air, and Common ufe Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread $if Of mifery. Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, Ho w many fbrink into the fordid hut Of chearlels poverty.... | |
| James Thomson, Barthold Heinrich Brockes - English poetry - 1745 - 586 pages
...Man and Man. 305 How many pine in Want, and Dungeon Glooms; Shut from the common Air, and common Ufe Of their own Limbs. How many drink the Cup Of baleful Grief, or eat the bitter Bread Of Mifery, Sore pierc'd by wintry Winds, 510 How many f hrink into the fordid Hut Of chearlels Poverty.... | |
| James Thomson - 1757 - 244 pages
...betwixt Man and Man. How many pine in want, and dungeon gloomt ; Shut from the common air, and common ufe Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread 335 Of mifery. Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many mrink into the fordid hut Of cheerlefs poverty.... | |
| James Thomson - 1766 - 266 pages
...betwixt Man and Man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common ufe Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread 335 Of mifery. Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, How many mrink into the fordid hut Of cheerlefs poverty.... | |
| English literature - 1789 - 810 pages
...and man, How many pine in want and dungeongloom, Shot up from th' common an-, an4 commoA ufc i Of on Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of mifery." To defcribe the various fcenes of human mifery that have a claim to our couiiuili n are many,... | |
| 1772 - 364 pages
...How many pine in iiiaitt an$ dungeon glao.uis ; Sit ut from the common air, and co»f man ufe . • Of their own limbs: ! ho<w many drink the cup Of baleful grief, to, eat the bitter brea^d Of tuijery ; fore pierc'd by wimry windt, How many jlirink into the fordid... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms ; Shut from the common air, and common ufe Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread 335 Of mifery. S.,re pierc'd by wintery winds, How many flirink into the fordid hut Of cheerlefs poverty.... | |
| Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...betwixt man and man. How many pine in want, and dungeon. gloom,, Shut from the common air, and common ufe Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup, Of baleful grief, or eat. the bitter bread Of rmfery. Sore pierc'd by wintry winds,, 'Of cheerlefs poverty. How many fhake With all the fiercer tortures... | |
| Charities - 1783 - 162 pages
...they dance along, How many pine in want and dungeon glooms, Shut from the common air, and common ufe .Of their own limbs ! How many drink the cup •-Of baleful grief, and eat the bitter bread Of mifery ! Sore pierc'd by wintry winds, -How many flirink into the fordid... | |
| George Anne Bellamy - 1785 - 250 pages
...and man : " How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms ; " Shut from the common air, and common ufc " Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup " Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread of rai... fery." I am apprehenfive I fhall tire you with this melancholy account of the extreme of defpair,... | |
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