 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851
...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, design'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The prond 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 thec he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 519 ページ
...hour The Bad affright, afflict the Best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The Proud are taught to taste of pain, A'nd 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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852
...• 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. 2. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 186 ページ
...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, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 733 ページ
...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. ****** Thy form benign, Oh, Goddess! wear, Thy milder influence impart; Thy philosophic train be there,... | |
 | George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis, William Gifford, Charles Carrington - 1854 - 248 ページ
...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 (Rev., ed) - 1854
...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... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 166 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 253 ページ
...power, 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 aloneK Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour And bade to form her infant... | |
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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,... 
