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 - 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... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1901 - 654 pages
...affright, afflict the best 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 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
| Literature - 1901 - 634 pages
...bad affright, afflict the best 1 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... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1902 - 406 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... | |
| University of St. Andrews - 1902 - 740 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... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 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. • _ ___ _.. 1 When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he... | |
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