 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
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 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 heav'nly... | |
 | 1908 - 464 pàgines
...hour The bad affright, afflict the best! 5 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 tc send on earth Virtue, his darhng child, design'd. To thee he gave the heavenly birth... | |
 | 1908 - 406 pàgines
...bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of piin, 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 - 1909 - 168 pàgines
...Whofe iron fcourge and tort'ring hour, The Bad affright^afflift the Beft I D 3 o HYMN TO ADVERSITY. Bound in thy adamantine chain "The Proud are taught...purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before s unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 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,... | |
 | Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - 240 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,... | |
 | 1910 - 498 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... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young - 1911 - 1196 pàgines
...The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, S 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, I0 To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Alfred Slater West - 1912 - 364 pàgines
...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. S3. Orpheus with his lute made trees And the mountain tops that freeze Bow themselves, when he did... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - 1913 - 104 pàgines
...power, Thou tamer of the human breast, 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 heavenly... | |
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