 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 258 σελίδες
...hour Affright the bad, 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. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child designed, To Ihee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1820 - 554 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 alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth,... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 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 alone. » When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 408 σελίδες
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best 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. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 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 alone. When first thy sire to send on Earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 σελίδες
...tort'ringhour, 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 alone. When first thy Sire to send o ' earth Virtue, his darling child, desi ^nrd, To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 σελίδες
...hour The bad affright, afflict the bestl 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 gaye Ihe hcav'nly birth,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 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 alone. X 2 When first thy sire to sent! on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 σελίδες
...Whose iron scourge and torturing hour 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,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 286 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 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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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,... 
