 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
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 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. 96 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pages
...affright, afflict the beat I . 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. By the streams that ever flow, By the fragrant winds that blow O'er th* Elysian flow'rs ; By those... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 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,... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...NUMBER ONE. txxt : " When first thy sire, to send on earth Virtue, hi» darling child, designed, To thoe 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 bora ; What Sorrow was thou badst her know, And... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 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,... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birlh,... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 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 sira to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly hirth,... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 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." From an Ode to Adversity. — Gray. 4. Odes are sometimes composed in their sectional parts, of eight... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly hirth,... | |
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