 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,...  A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes - Página 5editado por - 1770 - 336 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | George Isaac Huntingford (bp. of Hereford.) - 1785 - 208 páginas
...human breaft, Whofe iron fcourge and tort'ring hour The Bad affright, afflift the Belt ! Bound in thine adamantine chain, The Proud are taught to tafte of...his darling Child, defign'd, • To thee he gave the heavenly Birth, And bade thee form ber infant mind. Stern can you tell why, faid CYRUS ?" — " I can."... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 páginas
...of the human breaft, D Whofe iron fcourge and tort'ring hour, The bad affright, afflift the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1786 - 210 páginas
...tamer of the human breaft, Whofe iron fcourge, and tort'ring hour, The bad affright, afflia the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. F 2 When I When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1789 - 454 páginas
...ч And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpity'd and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bad to form her infant mind ; Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year fhe bore;... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 páginas
...affright, afflict: the hrft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafle of paii>, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, bis darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 372 páginas
...tamer of the human breaft, Whofe iron fcourge, and torturing hour, The bad affright, afflift the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught...unfelt before, unpitied, and alone, When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 páginas
...adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tade of pain ; And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfclt pernicious, us'd. And, filial (enfe yet ftriving...Achitophel his doubts exprefi'd : Why are my thought heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 páginas
...proud are taught to taftc of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan \Vith pangs unfelt before, unpity'd and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thec he ga>ve the heav'nly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfc I thy rigid... | |
 | Richard Johnson - 1793 - 198 páginas
...tamer of the human breaft, Whofe iron fcourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflia the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone, Whenfirft th/fiis tc... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 páginas
...tamer of the human breaft, Whole iron fcourge and ton'ring hour The bad aflright, afflict the belt ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitu-d and alone. When firit thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee... | |
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