 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 - Sida 44efter Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 sidor
...hour The Bad affright, afflift the Beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,... | |
 | Collection - 1758 - 394 sidor
...hour The Bad affright, afflift the Beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,... | |
 | 1753 - 716 sidor
...hour The bad affr.gV.t, affKift the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied ,ina alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 sidor
...hour The Bad affright, afflict the Beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire ,to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 142 sidor
...hour, The Bad affright, afflift the Beft! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafle of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 sidor
...affright, afflift the Beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. "When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1770 - 402 sidor
...The Bad affright, afflift the Btjft ! Bound in. thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to tafte of pain, ' . And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1770 - 134 sidor
...The Bad affright, afflia the Bed ! Bound Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1770 - 136 sidor
...Bad affright, afflift the Beft ! Bound Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone, i When firfl thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | 1793 - 814 sidor
...affright, affliil the hett ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tifte of pi-'П, And purple tyrants vainly groan, With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone." GREY. WHO would not relinquifh the gaudy pomp and fpleodour of a court, the coftly robe, the fumptuous... | |
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