 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
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pàgines
...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, designed, 10 To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pàgines
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best I 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. X2 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | 1826 - 310 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 heavenly birth,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 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 heavenly birth,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 222 pàgines
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 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pàgines
...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 thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | 1826 - 438 pàgines
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 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 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. 2. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave' the heav'nly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pàgines
...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 thee he gave the... | |
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