 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
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pągines
...power, 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 aloneK Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour And bade to form her infant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pągines
...The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are tauglit 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 heavenly... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pągines
...hour, The bad affright, affliet the best! Bound in thy adamantine ehain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan, With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone. Gray's Hymn to Adversity. The gods in bounty work up storms about us, That give mankind oeeasion to... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 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, designed, To thee3 he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 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, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pągines
...The bad affright, afflict the best ! Boand in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste (if V V V V-Yx 4 first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, deaign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pągines
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best, Hound 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 «”re to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, 10 To thec he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 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, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | William James Linton - 1883 - 396 pągines
...hour The bad affright, afflict the best : Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tnste 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... | |
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