 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
 | History - 1778 - 626 pages
...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 sirefo send on earth Virtue, hi* darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavbly birth,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 456 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. DAUGHTER of Jove, relentlefs Power, When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child,... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...bad affright, afflia the beftl 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.fire to fend-on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth,... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 518 pages
...iguage of IT • numb Bound 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... | |
 | 1782 - 500 pages
...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, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year fhe bore... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1782 - 410 pages
...Bad aiFright, afflift 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 • ^irtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...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...defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bade thee form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year fhe bore... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford (bp. of Hereford.) - 1785 - 208 pages
...affright, afflift the Belt ! Bound in thine 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,... | |
 | John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...affright, afflid the beft 1 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, And... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1786 - 210 pages
...bad affright, afflia 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. F 2 When I When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave... | |
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