 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
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 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 heavenly birth,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pągines
...tort'ringhour, 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 o ' earth Virtue, his darling child, desi ^nrd, To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 pągines
...hour The bad affright, afflict the bestl 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 gaye Ihe hcav'nly birth,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pągines
...Whose iron scourge and torturing hour 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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 pągines
...The bad affrighted, 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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pągines
...i 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. 2. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To <hee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pągines
...The bad affright, afflict^he 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 heavenly birth,... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 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." GRAY. . *. " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 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 heavenly hirth,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pągines
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste was strange to see how they flocked first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
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