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" Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness... "
The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett - Page 167
by Samuel Johnson - 1868 - 254 pages
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood defil'd, And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' altcr'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood dcfil'd, And moody...
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Illustrations of Human Life, Volume 2

Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 338 pages
...ambition, but an honest one. Why are they now to be told, before their time, that ambition ' Shall whirl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy f" Still more, why arc they unnecessarily to be warned of < Hard unkiniliicss" alter'd eye, That mockg...
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Peerage for the People

William Carpenter - Nobility - 1837 - 894 pages
...expression of his countenance, too painfully illustrates the passage of the poet, in which he tells us of " Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forced to flow." Such a man must receive the applause to which his unquestioned abilities reasonably entitle him ; but...
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The Young Man's Book of Elegant Poetry: Comprising Selections from the Works ...

American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...And envy wan, and faded care, Grim-visaged comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dartAmbition this shall tempt to rise ; Then whirl the wretch from...To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy. And stings of' falsehood those shall try, And ham unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forced...
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Prodromus: Or, An Inquiry Into the First Principles of Reasoning; Including ...

Graves Champney Haughton - Reasoning - 1839 - 292 pages
...heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood detil'd, And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest...
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Prodromus, Or an Inquiry Into the First Principles of Reasoning: Including ...

Sir Graves Chamney Haughton - Philosophy - 1839 - 298 pages
...heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood defil'd, And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest...
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Prodromus, Or, An Inquiry Into the First Principles of Reasoning: Including ...

Graves Champney Haughton - Logic - 1839 - 294 pages
...And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Amhition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To hitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness'...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood defil'd, And moody Madness, laughing wild Amid severest...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. in patriotism ; those of the other in devotion. Mr...his private conduct had been directed ; and seeme altered eye, That mocks the tear it forced to flow ; And keen Remorse with blood defiled, And moody...
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