 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 страници
...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. 96 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 страници
...The bad affright, afflict the beat 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. By the streams that ever flow, By the fragrant winds that blow O'er th* Elysian flow'rs ; By those... | |
 | 1840 - 372 страници
...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 страници
...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 birlh,... | |
 | Cam river - 1841 - 318 страници
...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,... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 страници
...iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, 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 Collins - 1844 - 324 страници
...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 hirth,... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 страници
...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." From an Ode to Adversity. — Gray. 4. Odes are sometimes composed in their sectional parts, of eight... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 страници
...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 hirth,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 страници
...hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in tby 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... | |
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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,... 
