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
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pągines
...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 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,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 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 - 1826 - 286 pągines
...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... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 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 heav'nly birth,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 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. 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 pągines
...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 258 pągines
...hour, The bad ar ight, 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 alum-. 2 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 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 anrl alone. 2. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his, darling child, design'd, To thee he... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 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 heav'nly birth.... | |
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