 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1841 - 320 страници
...prophecy while looking at some former generation of Eton boys. Mrs. repeated them : " These shall the fnry passions tear, The vultures of the mind ; Disdainful...gnaws the secret heart, And envy wan, and faded care, Grim-visaged, comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart." This is undoubtedly powerful poetry,... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1841 - 658 страници
...Gray's doleful prophecy while looking at some former generation of Eton boys.— Mrs. repeated them: " These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of...waste their youth, Or jealousy, with rankling tooth, • What would probably be served for an extempore lunch at an American inn ? Bread and butter, (probably... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1842 - 524 страници
...RECOLLECTIONS OF A SPORTSMAN'S LIFE. BY THE EDITOR. CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH : LA FRATERNITE D'ARGUS. " These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart." — GRAY. ABOUT a league from Paris,... | |
 | 1842 - 416 страници
...Eton, Gray thought of them when they should rise to manhood, and wrote — " These shall the fiery passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful...gnaws the secret heart, And envy wan, and faded care, Grim-visaged, comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart : " and the poet here, as in most other... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 страници
...them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murth'rous band ; Ah, tell them they are men ! ief specimen: — The night is chill ; the forest...not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the hut Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 страници
...them where in ;imbuJ> stand, To seize their prey, the murth'rous baud ; Ah, tell them they are men ! r, and fell ( jriia-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise,... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 страници
...them where in amhunh stand, To seize their prey, the tnurth'rous hand Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks hehind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Ot jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 328 страници
...them where in amhu-h stand, To aei« their prey, the murth'roua hud Ah, tell them they are men ! ThrM shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Pear, And Shame that scuiks hehind ; Or pining tove shall waste their youth, Os Jealousy with rankling... | |
 | George Field - 1845 - 334 страници
...description. 264. And thus again sings Gray, figuratively and enharmonically, in broken colours, — " These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...the secret heart ; And Envy wan, a.nd faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart." Wherein every line is allusively figured... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 страници
...opinion may be formed of the view of life which it suggests. These1 shall the fury Passions tear,2 The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then... | |
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Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to... 
