 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,...  The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 44de Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...the human breast, Whose iron scourge, and tort'ring hour, The bad affright, afflict the best ! Hound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste...purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpiiied and alone. And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore "Wiih patience... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 196 pages
...the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! Ijound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste...of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs uufclt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And hade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...of the human breast, Whose iron scourge, and tort'ring hour, i The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. 2. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To <hee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...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...of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs 1mfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child,... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour, The bad affright, afflict^he best ! » Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade thee form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...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...groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone." GRAY. . *. " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...taraer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With paugs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child,... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort* ring hour The Bad affright, afflict the Best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught...Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly hirth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patien.ce... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...of the human breast,' Whose iron scourge, and torturing hour, The bad affright, afflict the best ! eserv'd. And therefore the wits of the town came thither, 'Twas strange to see how they flocked heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse ; thy rigid lore With patience... | |
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