 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 410 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. 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 - 1830 - 424 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,... | |
 | 1831 - 558 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 - 1831 - 436 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... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 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. 96 When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 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,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 ページ
...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 - 1883 - 396 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 - 1883 - 498 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,... | |
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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,... 
