 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 - Side 44av Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 268 sider
...human breast, Whose iron scourge,- and tort'ring hour. The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound ir thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | 1826 - 82 sider
...apposition, provided either •be accompanied by dependent words, must be separated by a pause. EXAMPLES. When first thy sire, to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed ; To thce he gave the heavenly birth And bade thee form her infant mind. Gray. Here the word... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 468 sider
...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...design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bad to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 sider
...r 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...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 heav'nly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1902 - 394 sider
...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...groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. • _ ___ _.. 1 When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he... | |
 | Laurie Magnus, Cecil Headlam - 1903 - 390 sider
...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...groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. Oh ! gently on thy suppliant's head, Dread goddess, lay thy chast'ning hand ! Not in thy Gorgon terrors... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 218 sider
...caves, And all their echoes, mourn." (3) The infinitive may precede the word on which it depends ; as, " When first thy sire, to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed." (4) Prepositional phrases may precede the verbs they modify ; as, • " Of man's first disobedience,... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 502 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1907 - 308 sider
...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...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... | |
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