Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain,... Poems by Mr. Gray - Pągina 30per Thomas Gray - 1770 - 120 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Charles Mackay - 1870 - 582 pągines
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| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pągines
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best, Hound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy «”re to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, 10 To thec he gave the heav'nly... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pągines
...hour The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
| William James Linton - 1883 - 396 pągines
...hour The bad affright, afflict the best : Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tnste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 326 pągines
...hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse ! thy rigid... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pągines
...hour The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and aluu.3. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1884 - 468 pągines
...hour The Bad affright, afflict the Best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The Proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone.1 When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling Child, design'd, To thee he gave the... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1884 - 452 pągines
...houf The Bad affright, afflict the Best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The Proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone.1 When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling Child, design'd, To thee he gave the... | |
| 1885 - 686 pągines
...hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1885 - 164 pągines
...The Bad affright, afflict the Best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, 5 The Proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth, Virtue, his darling Child, design'd, 10 To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
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