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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 - Fore-edge painting - 1825 - 346 pages
...Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks behind ; Or pining 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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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 95

English literature - 1825 - 878 pages
...of ambition, a galled spirit, or a broken heart, may bind him to a foreign shore ; " Or pining Love, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim visag'd, comfortless Despair ! And Sorrow's piercing dart !" But there are moments when even these...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 95

English literature - 1825 - 808 pages
...ambition, a galled spirit, or a broken heart, may bind hifn to a foreign shore-; " Or pining Love, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and laded Care, Grim visag'd, comfortless Despair ! And Sorrow's piercing dart !" But there are moments...
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The Poetical Works

Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 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...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'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 New-York Literary Gazette, and Phi Beta Kappa Repository, Volume 1

Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...spirit, or a hroken heart, may hind him to a foreign shore ; " Or pining Love, Or Jealousy with raokling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan. and faded Care, Grim visag'd, comfortless repair! And Sorrow's piercing dart !" But there are moments when even these...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band t Ah, tell them, they are men ! These shall the fury...gnaws the secret heart, "And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band ! Ah, tell them they are men! These shall the fury passions...youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly knaws the secret heart : And envy wan, and faded care, Grim visag'd comfortless despair, And sorrow's...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...their prey, the murth'roue i .'• i 'ч i ; Ab, tell them they are men 1 These shall the fury Fassions tear, The vultures of the mind. Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulk* behind; Or piniug 1<ove shall waste their youth* Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 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...gnaws the secret heart, And envy wan, and faded care, Grim-visaged comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then...
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