 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 Seiten
...The bad affright, afflict the best ! 5 Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell; Such thoughts to Lucy I will 10 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design 'd, Xo thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Leo Thomas Butler - 1917 - 168 Seiten
...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. II. (1, 2) Thou temptest : whence the proud in adamantine chains bound fast thou dost teach (what)... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 Seiten
...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. ! Ode to Adversity When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1925 - 450 Seiten
...Hour, The bad affright, afflict the best, Bound in thy adamantine Chain The Proud are taught to tast of Pain And purple Tyrants vainly groan With Pangs unfelt before, unpitied & alone. When first thy Sire to send on Earth Virtue, his darling Child, design'd, To Thee he gave... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 Seiten
...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 Birth,... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Ian Michael - 1987 - 652 Seiten
...Affright the bad, afflict the best. Bound in thine adamantine chain 5 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 To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | William Blake - 2000 - 132 Seiten
...human breaft. Whofe iron fcourge, and tort'ring hour, The bad affright, afflidl thebeft! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of...pain, (• And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfclt before, unpitied and alone. F i When When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his da -ling... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 Seiten
...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,... 
