 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 410 pages
...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. To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stem rugged nurse ! thy rigid... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood, George Barrell Emerson - Readers - 1830 - 424 pages
...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1831 - 558 pages
...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,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1831 - 436 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...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. 96 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 626 pages
...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 Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...The bad affright, afflict the best ! Boand in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste (if ll first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, deaign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | William James Linton - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...hour The bad affright, afflict the best : Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tnste 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best, Hound 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 «¡re to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, 10 To thec he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 498 pages
...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. 287 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,... 
