 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,...  The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Strana 44autor/autoři: Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 str.
...affright, afflict: the hrft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafle of paii>, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, bis darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 372 str.
...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 pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone, When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | 1792 - 112 str.
...hour The bad affright, afflict the beft! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before , unpitied and alone. ' When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue , his darling child , defign'd , ;To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Richard Johnson - 1793 - 198 str.
...affright, afflia the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone, Whenfirft th/fiis tc 'and on earth Virtue, his darling chiul, defign'd^ To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 str.
...hour, The bad affright, affict the befl ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth . Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 str.
...hour, The bad affright, afflid the bell ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to tafle of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birch,... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 str.
...hour, The bad affright, amidft the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth VIRTUE, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1801 - 366 str.
...the ancients is supposed to be not the color which we call purple, but that which we call scarlet. " When first thy sire to send on earth " Virtue, his darling child, design'd, " To thee he gave the heavenly birth, " And bade to form her infant mind." When S was asked who was meant in these lines... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 str.
...tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse:! thy rigid lore With patience... | |
 | Peter Pindar - 1804 - 176 str.
...tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...his darling child, design'd, " To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse ! thy ri«id lore With patience... | |
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