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" Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness... "
Elegy Written in Country Churchyard and Other Poems - Page 97
by Thomas Gray - 1853 - 186 pages
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...heart : And envy wan, and faded care, Grim-visag'd comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart. h not, hate you. P. What should ail 'em i F. A hundred...Bond is but one, but Harpax is a score. P. Each m alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow; And keen remorse, with blood defil'd, And moody...
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Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and ..., Volume 2

Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...ambition would take warning from any thing) of the penalty which it must pay for its gratification. " Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy." Gray. Miscellaneous Illustrations. WHITE LADY. APPARITIONS. THE motley character of our author's supernatural...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1824 - 478 pages
...Sorrow's piercing dart. Amhition this shall tempt to rim, Then whirl the wretch from high, To hitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings...of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forced to flow ; And keen Remorse with blood defiled, And moody...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. 70 Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, 75 And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, Ver. 66. Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth.] Mr. Mitford traces...
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Manderville; or, The Hibernian chiliarch

Francis S. Higginson - Northern Ireland in literature - 1825 - 586 pages
...mercy of that Being, who, with the power to annihilate, never chastens but to save ! CHAPTER XXXIV. " Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy. GHAT. IN the mean time, preparations for carrying the orders into execution received by General Trueshot,...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wreteh from high, To bitter seorn a saerifiee, when many wills rebel ? How shall he keep, what, sleeping or awake, A weaker may su alter'd eye, That moeks the tear it fore'd to flow ; And keen remotse, with blood denl'd, And moody...
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forced to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood defiled, And moody...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. voi. in. 2 \ Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...grinning Infamy : The stings of Falsehood those shall trj-, • And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow ; And keen Remorse,...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 87

English literature - 1825 - 600 pages
...promote it, and ieeras mentally to respond, in the words of the same poet, Ambition, this shalt lempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice — — Yet, ab! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow ; And keen Remorse with blood defil'd, And moody...
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