 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
 | Alfred Slater West - English language - 1912 - 364 pages
...bad affright, afflict the bestl 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. S3. Orpheus with his lute made trees And the mountain tops that freeze Bow themselves, when he did... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas - English poetry - 1913 - 104 pages
...Thou tamer of the human breast, 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, 10 To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, ю ^ ' w 7 }d Nurse! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - English letters - 1915 - 478 pages
...before, unpitied & alone. When first thy Sire to send on Earth Virtue, his darling Child, design'd, 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, And... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...affright, afflict the best ! 5 Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell; Such thoughts to Lucy I will 10 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design 'd, Xo thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Leo Thomas Butler - Latin language - 1917 - 168 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. II. (1, 2) Thou temptest : whence the proud in adamantine chains bound fast thou dost teach (what)... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 pages
...bad affright, afflict the bestl 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,... | |
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