 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 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,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 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. ****** Thy form benign, Oh, Goddess! wear, Thy milder influence impart; Thy philosophic train be there,... | |
 | George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis, Charles Carrington, William Gifford - 1854 - 288 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, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 σελίδες
...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, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 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, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 σελίδες
...power, 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 aloneK Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour And bade to form her infant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 σελίδες
...The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are tauglit 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 heavenly... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 σελίδες
...hour, The bad affright, affliet the best! Bound in thy adamantine ehain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan, With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone. Gray's Hymn to Adversity. The gods in bounty work up storms about us, That give mankind oeeasion to... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 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, designed, To thee3 he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
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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,... 
