 | John Sabine - 1807 - 316 σελίδες
...hour, The 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 unknown. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 σελίδες
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in the 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'ly birth,... | |
 | 1793 - 814 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 σελίδες
...power, Thou tamer of the human breast, 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 σελίδες
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the beet ! 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 Johnson - 1810 - 628 σελίδες
...affright, afflict the best ! bound in thy adamantine chain Tbe proud are taught to taste of pain, Am! purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone. When first thy sire to send on Earth Virtue, his darling child, desigu'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1811 - 286 σελίδες
...tort'ring 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...Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 σελίδες
...the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain ; 256 LESSONS [PART I. 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,... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford - 1815 - 314 σελίδες
...The Bad affright, "afflict the Best ! Bound in thine adamantine chain, The Proud are taught to taste of Pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. indeed I think you excel more in humanity rthan generalship." "Yes truly," said CYRUS; "and indeed... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 σελίδες
...bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of paid* 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,... | |
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Tis folly to be wise. 287 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,... 
