 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,...  Poems by Mr. Gray - Página 52por Thomas Gray - 1768 - 187 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1826 - 310 páginas
...bad affright, afflict the best. Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. "When first thy sire to send on Earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 páginas
...affright, afflict the best! ',' ' Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 páginas
...bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan, With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 páginas
...bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly 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 - 1827 - 262 páginas
...affright', afflict the best* ! Bound in thy adamantine chain', The proud are taught to taste of pain% And purple tyrants vainly 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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 páginas
...bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth.... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 páginas
...affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 páginas
...affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. 96 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 páginas
...affright, afflict the beat I . Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain ; And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. By the streams that ever flow, By the fragrant winds that blow O'er th* Elysian flow'rs ; By those... | |
 | 1840 - 372 páginas
...bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
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