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" The vultures of the mind, Disdainful anger, pallid fear, And 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,... "
The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series ... - Page 142
by Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 586 pages
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambush stand To seize their prey the murth'rous band ! Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury...mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambush stand , .. To seize their prey the murth'rous band J Ah, tell them, they are men ! These shall the fury...tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallied Fear, And shame that skulks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth,. Or Jealousy with...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seise their prey, the murd'tous - wa^te their youth, Or jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart , And «n\y wan,...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...shew them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the nuird'rous hand ! Ah, tell them they arc men!' These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful unger, pallid fear, And shame that skulks behind ; Or pining love shall waste their youth, Or jealousy...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah ! shew them where in ambush stand, To seiae their prey, the murd'rous band ! Ah! tell them they are men. These shall the fury passions tear, The vulturs of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame, that skulks behind ; Or pining Love...
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Readings on Poetry

Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...expresses in a few words, that these children are exposed to all the evils to' which men are liable. "These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures...comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart." These. — That is to say, some of these young victims. fury Passions. — Passions as dreadful as...
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The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his ...

Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks behind ; Or pineing Love shall waste their youth, 65 Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws...Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. 70 Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice,...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train; Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey the murderous band ! Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury...vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, *ml Shame that sculks behind : Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth,...
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The triumph of old age, an elegiac poem

Edward Durell (curate of Withiel.) - 1818 - 204 pages
...seems to have been indebted for the same thought, in his Ode On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. " These shall the fury passions tear, " The vultures...anger, pallid fear, " And shame that skulks behind." Of the Grim Giant of the cloud-capt Cape.— 6. p. 119. ' Nam acabava, quando huma figura ' Se nos...
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The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces ..., Volume 35, Part 1

English literature - 1820 - 274 pages
...her lips ; and he was kept in continual alarm at the import of her expressions. CHAPTER XC. *' Him shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of the...fear, 'And shame that skulks behind ; • * * * Or jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the heart; And envy wan, and faded care, Grim-visag'd...
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