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The English Master: Or, Student's Guide to Reasoning and Composition ... - Page 371
by William Banks - 1823 - 399 pages
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 4

Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 354 pages
...POURS HER THROAT ? Essay on Man, Ep, mv 33. Gray in the " Ode to Adversity" addresses the power thus, " Thou Tamer of the human breast, Whose IRON SCOURGE...TORTURING HOUR The bad affright, afflict the best." Wakefield censures the expression " torturing hour,'" by discovering an impropriety and incongruity....
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...destroy their paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY. ssion was held the other day, And Apollo himself was...came thither, 'Twas strange to see how they flocked When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With Lord Byron's English ...

William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...<jipoveiv BpovOi''£ o&waavru, ^\p \rdtiei /iutfdv Qtrra Kvpib<£ e\etv. sLscliytius, in Agamemnone. DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort* ring hour The Bad affright, afflict the Best! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught...
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Curiosities of literature. (Repr. of the 7th ed.).

Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 536 pages
...THROAT !" Essay on Man, Ep. in. v. 33. Gray in the " Ode to Adversity" addresses the power thus, " Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose IRON SCOURGE and TORTURING HOUR The bad afright, afflict the best." Wakefield censures the expression " torturing hour," by discovering an...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 30

1824 - 448 pages
...divinior. Miltoni sui meminerat GKATUS, in hjmno to adversity feliciter sane scripto nee adversis musis : Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain. Nee aliter capi debet TASSI Italorum Virgilii versus vii. 88 I' elmo adamantine avea le tempre. Falluntur,...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 pages
...of Heav'n, relentless pow'r, . Thou tamer of the human breast, <* Whose iron scourge, and tort'ring hour, The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in...groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. 2. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...to Adversity. DAUGHTER of Jove, rolentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourgR and torturing hour, The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud arc taught to taste of pain ; And purple tyrants vainly groan, With pangs unfelt before, unpiticd and...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...destroy their paradise. No more ; where ignoranee is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY. f athletie make, Lest brutal breezes should too roughly shake Its tender form, seourge, and torturing hour, The bad affright, affliet the best ! Bound in thy adamantine ehain The...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...say — Farewell, we meet no more ?— COWPER. SECTION XIII. Ode to adversity. DAUGHTER of Heav'n, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge, and tort'ring hour, The bad affright, afflict the best I Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...tamer of the human breast.] " Then he. Great tamer of all human art." Whose iron scourge and tort 'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, 5 The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before,...
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