 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
 | 1824 - 448 pages
...divinior. Miltoni sui meminerat GKATUS, in hjmno to adversity feliciter sane scripto nee adversis musis : Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain. Nee aliter capi debet TASSI Italorum Virgilii versus vii. 88 I' elmo adamantine avea le tempre. Falluntur,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...say — Farewell, we meet no more ?— COWPER. SECTION XIII. Ode to adversity. DAUGHTER of Heav'n, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast,...groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. X2 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...iron scourge and tort 'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, 5 The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple...thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, 10 To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern-rugged Nurse... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...iron seourge, and torturing hour, The bad affright, affliet the best ! Bound in thy adamantine ehain ll'd unf :/lt before, unpitied, and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling ehild,... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...and torturing hour, The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud arc taught to taste of pain ; And purple tyrants vainly groan, With pangs unfelt before, unpiticd and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 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...Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience... | |
 | 1826 - 310 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...Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pages
...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...groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. 2 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge, and tott'ring 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 unteit before, unpitied and alone. 2. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 224 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 to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly gjroan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. 2. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue,... | |
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