 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
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 288 páginas
...tamer of the human breaft, 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 die heav'nly birth, And... | |
 | Gleanings - 1805 - 246 páginas
...boor, 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 Enfield - 1805 - 456 páginas
...of the human breaft, i Whofe iron fcourge and tort'ring hour» The bad affright, afflift the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of pain, With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. And purple tyrants vainly groan When firft thy fire to... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 páginas
...taught to talte of pain; , And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unuiticd and al*1 When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, delign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly hirth, And bade to fonn her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe!... | |
 | Solomon Hodgson - 1806 - 362 páginas
...tamer of the human breaft, Whofe iron fcourge and tott'ring hour, The bad affright, afflia the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy fire to fend to earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford (bp. of Hereford.) - 1806 - 306 páginas
...human breaft, Whofe iron Icourge and tort'ring hour The Bad affright, affliet the Beft ! Bound in thine adamantine chain, The Proud are taught to tafte of...With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firll thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 páginas
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in the 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'ly birth,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 páginas
...power, Thou tamer of the human breast, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 páginas
...affright, afflict the best ! bound in thy adamantine chain Tbe proud are taught to taste of pain, Am! purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone. When first thy sire to send on Earth Virtue, his darling child, desigu'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
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