...them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous band ! Ah ! tell them they are men ! 7 These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tocth. That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair,...

...them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous band ! Ah ! tell them they are men ! 7 These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tocth. That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grini-viaaged, comfortless...

...pain, The unfeeling for his own. Gray's Elm Coilfgt. These shall the fury passions tear, The vulture of the mind, Disdainful anger, pallid fear, And shame...jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the seeret heart. And envy wan, and faded eare, Grim-visag'd eomfortless despair, And sorrow's piereing...

...I suppose, will be to the personifications of poetry. Woe to such lines as ' These shall the fiery passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful...Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind.' As to figurative language generally, you yourself cannot possibly avoid it. I will undertake to find...

...whatever .opinion may he formed of the view of life which it suggeata. These1 shall the fury Passions2 tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger,...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then...

...mid-eighteenth-century verse is a forest of exclamation marks. Gray also uses personification much as Collins does: These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, . . . The Eton College ode manages these devices well. Essentially a contemplative poem, it starts...

...To seize their prey the murtherous band! Ah, tell them, they are men! These shall the fury Passion tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger,...gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then...

...where "ignorance is bliss." But Gray contemplates the grim fate that may await them in later years: "These shall the fury Passions tear, / The vultures.../ Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, / And Shame that lurks behind," mixed, for good measure, with "bitter Scorn" and "grinning Infamy." Here is the pessimistic...