 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,...  Poems by Mr. Gray - Page 52by Thomas Gray - 1768 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
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...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...alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, bis darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bade tnee form her infant mind.... | |
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...bad affright, afflift the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt...Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ; thy rigid lore With patience... | |
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...of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan, With pang« unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When full thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child,...defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year ihe bore... | |
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...; And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfclt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire g in his brcaft, Thus to 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... | |
 | 1792 - 112 pages
...bad affright, afflict the beft! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before , unpitied and alone. ' When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue , his darling child , defign'd , ;To thee he gave the heav'nly birth,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...; And 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 he gave the heavenly Dirth, And bjcle to foim her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe! thy rigid lore With patience... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1797 - 188 pages
...à fentir la douleur & que les tyrans torturés par des angpifD 2 Wifh pangs urtfeh before, unpity'd and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, iQ' To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bad to form her infant mind ; Stern rugged nurfe ! Thy... | |
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...proud are taught to tafte of pain, 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, Io To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bade to form her infant mind ; Stern rugged nuri'e ! thy... | |
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...bad affright, affict the befl ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth . Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And... | |
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...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 heav'nly birth,... | |
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