 | Horace Mann - Education - 1845 - 352 pages
...fortunes that await them, shall we predict their destiny, in the terrific language of the poet : — " These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of...Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind. " Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice,... | |
 | New Hampshire - 1846 - 650 pages
...fortunes that uwait them, shall we predict their destiny in the terrific language of the poet ; — These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of...Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear And Shame that skulks behind ; Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...heart, like heated steel, Takes each impression, and is worked at pleasure. YOUNG'S Busiris. 10. Then shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the...Grim-visag'd, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. GRAY. 11. His soul, like bark with rudder lost, On passion's changeful tide was toss'd ; Nor vice nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1847 - 276 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...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... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...heart, like heated steel, Takes each impression, and is worked at pleasure. YOUNG'S Jiusiris. 10. Then shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind; — Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, r And Shame, thnt skulks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 380 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 tear, The vultures of the mind," &c. I saw this fine Poem, in Gray's hand writing, oil a single sheet of letter paper, sold by auction... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...they were to encounter on life's bo?y theatre, and with equal truth «ni poetic beauty he writes, " These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of...the mind, Disdainful anger, pallid fear, And shame which skulks bebind. And envy wan, and faded care, Grim visa*ed, comfortless despair, And sorrow's... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 532 pages
...them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous band ! Ah, tell them, they are men I These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of...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... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 528 pages
...Misfortune's baneful 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...that skulks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youtli. Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart; And Envy wan, and faded... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous bund, Ah ! tell them they are men ! The=e shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful anger, pullid fear, And shame that skulks behind ; Or pining love shall waste their youth. Or jealousy with... | |
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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,... 
