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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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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 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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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag*d comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition thia shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high,...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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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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...infamy. The stings of falsehood those shall try, And keen remorse, with blood defil'd, And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. Lo, in the vale...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless D.spair, And Sorrow1» pierciug dart. ether, such domestic feuds proving afterwards the...indeed, some odd humours and coDiical antipathy, for whi Ami hard Unkindness' altered eye, That mocks the tear it forced to And keen Remorse with blood defiled,...
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Selections from the Choric Poetry of the Greek Dramatic Writers

English poetry - 1832 - 264 pages
....in his Ode on the distant Prospect of Eton College : " Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then hurl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy." SOPH. (ED. TYR. Hurled from highest realms of bliss, Sinks she in the dark abyss, Dashed against that...
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Poetic gems: partly original; but chiefly selected from the best authors: by ...

Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 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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A Descriptive, Explanatory, and Critical, Catalogue of Fifty of the Earliest ...

John Landseer - Painting - 1834 - 534 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 1 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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Memoirs of Spain During the Reigns of Philip IV. and Charles II ..., Volume 2

John Colin Dunlop - Spain - 1834 - 440 pages
...were thus enabled to gain a complete ascendency on the Rhine. CHAPTER IV. RISE AND FALL OF VALENZUELA. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. GRAY'S Eton College. AMIDST those disasters by which Spain was afflicted and overwhelmed in almost...
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Memoirs of Spain During the Reigns of Philip IV. and Charles II ..., Volume 2

John Colin Dunlop - Spain - 1834 - 462 pages
...complete ascendency on the Rhine. CHAPTER IV. - ' -.,:•!•• -IT, RISE AND FALL OF VALENZUELA. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. GRAY'S Eton College. AMIDST those disasters by which Spain was afflicted and overwhelmed in almost...
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Memoirs of Spain during the reigns of Philip iv. and Charles ii ..., Volume 2

John Colin Dunlop - 1834 - 456 pages
...gain a complete ascendency on the Rhine. CHAPTER IV. U1SK AND FALL OF VALENZUELA. Ambition this Hhall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamv. GRAV'S Eton College. AMIDST those disasters by which Spain was afflicted and overwhelmed in...
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