 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train., Ah, show them where in ambush stand To seize their prey, the murderous band ! Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury...that skulks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youthy Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, VOL. I.— G c That inly gnaws the secret heart : And Envy... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train. Ah, show them where in ambush stand To seize their prey, the murderous band ! Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury...vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, That inly gnaws the secret heart :. And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous band ! Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury...and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band ! Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury-...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Europe - 1841 - 312 pages
...Gray's doleful prophecy while looking at some former generation of Eton boys. Mrs. repeated them : " These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of...and faded care, Grim-visaged, comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart." This is undoubtedly powerful poetry, but is it the true sentiment ? I... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Europe - 1841 - 320 pages
...prophecy while looking at some former generation of Eton boys. Mrs. repeated them : " These shall the fnry passions tear, The vultures of the mind ; Disdainful...and faded care, Grim-visaged, comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart." This is undoubtedly powerful poetry, but is it the true sentiment ? I... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Europe - 1841 - 658 pages
...Gray's doleful prophecy while looking at some former generation of Eton boys.— Mrs. repeated them: " These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of...waste their youth, Or jealousy, with rankling tooth, • What would probably be served for an extempore lunch at an American inn ? Bread and butter, (probably... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1842 - 524 pages
...RECOLLECTIONS OF A SPORTSMAN'S LIFE. BY THE EDITOR. CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH : LA FRATERNITE D'ARGUS. " These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of...and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart." — GRAY. ABOUT a league from Paris, on the road to Versailles, there... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...Eton, Gray thought of them when they should rise to manhood, and wrote — " These shall the fiery passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful...and faded care, Grim-visaged, comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart : " and the poet here, as in most other matters, is the better philosopher.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Misfortune's baleful tram. Ah! show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murth'rous band ; it was imitated. We add a brief specimen: — The...not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the hut And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To... | |
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These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded... 
