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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,... "
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray - Page 44
by Thomas Gray - 1804 - 207 pages
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A Collection of Poems ...

Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 pages
...hour The Bad affright, afflift the Beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,...
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A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley].

Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...hour The Bad affright, afflift the Beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,...
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The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 22

1753 - 716 pages
...hour The bad affr.gV.t, affKift the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied ,ina alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave...
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A collection of poems, by several hands [ed. by R. Dodsley]. [2 other copies ...

Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...hour The Bad affright, afflict the Beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire ,to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly...
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Poems, Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1768 - 142 pages
...hour, The Bad affright, afflift the Beft! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafle of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,...
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Poems by Mr. Gray

Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pages
...affright, afflift the Beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. "When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,...
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A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, Volume 4

Robert Dodsley - 1770 - 402 pages
...The Bad affright, afflift the Btjft ! Bound in. thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to tafte of pain, ' . And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,...
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Poems by Mr. Gray

Thomas Gray - 1770 - 134 pages
...The Bad affright, afflia the Bed ! Bound Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth,...
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Poems

Thomas Gray - 1770 - 136 pages
...Bad affright, afflift the Beft ! Bound Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone, i When firfl thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly...
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The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex ..., Part 2

1793 - 814 pages
...affright, affliil the hett ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tifte of pi-'П, And purple tyrants vainly groan, With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone." GREY. WHO would not relinquifh the gaudy pomp and fpleodour of a court, the coftly robe, the fumptuous...
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