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
| Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 páginas
...hour The bad affright, afflict the bestl 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 gaye Ihe hcav'nly birth,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 páginas
...Whose iron scourge and torturing hour 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 - 1822 - 312 páginas
...The bad affrighted, 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, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 páginas
...i 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 <hee he gave the heav'nly... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...The bad affright, afflict^he 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,... | |
| William Banks - 1823 - 462 páginas
...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." GRAY. . *. " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,... | |
| William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 páginas
...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 hirth,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste was strange to see how they flocked first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 páginas
...The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, 5 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, 10 To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 páginas
...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... | |
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