 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, John Bradshaw - 1891 - 404 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. 8 When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 110 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,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 pàgines
...The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain. The proud are taught to taste nf 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'uly birth,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 252 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, design'd, 1° To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 400 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. 8 When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1895 - 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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 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 alonft, When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pàgines
...hour The bad aflright, 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 - 1898 - 346 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,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 768 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... | |
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