 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 - Pàgina 30per Thomas Gray - 1770 - 120 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pàgines
...The bad affright, afflict the best ! 5 Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell; Such thoughts to Lucy I will 10 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design 'd, Xo thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Leo Thomas Butler - 1917 - 168 pàgines
...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. II. (1, 2) Thou temptest : whence the proud in adamantine chains bound fast thou dost teach (what)... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pàgines
...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. ! Ode to Adversity When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1925 - 450 pàgines
...Hour, The bad affright, afflict the best, Bound in thy adamantine Chain The Proud are taught to tast of Pain And purple Tyrants vainly groan With Pangs unfelt before, unpitied & alone. When first thy Sire to send on Earth Virtue, his darling Child, design'd, To Thee he gave... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1929 - 490 pàgines
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