 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
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pàgines
...hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in tby 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... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pàgines
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The prond 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 thec he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pàgines
...hour The Bad affright, afflict the Best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to taste of pain, A'nd 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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 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, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 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,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 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. ****** Thy form benign, Oh, Goddess! wear, Thy milder influence impart; Thy philosophic train be there,... | |
 | George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis, Charles Carrington, William Gifford - 1854 - 288 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,... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 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. When first thy sire to send on earth, Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 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,... | |
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