 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
 | Thomas Gray, John Bradshaw - 1891 - 404 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. 8 When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry - 110 pages
...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, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain. The proud are taught to taste nf 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'uly birth,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1894 - 250 pages
...before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling Child, design'd, 1° To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth, And bad to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1894 - 252 pages
...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, design'd, 1° To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Engelse digkuns - 1894 - 400 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. 8 When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1895 - 190 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 sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...aflright, 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,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1898 - 346 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 Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling Child, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 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 sire, to send on earth, Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
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