 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 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, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 508 pages
...proud are taught to talle nf pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfclt before, unpuicd, and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, dcfign'd, To thce he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 288 pages
...tamer of the human breaft, Whofe iron fcourge, and tort'ring hour, The bad affright, afflift the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave die heav'nly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore Widi patience... | |
 | Gleanings - 1805 - 246 pages
...boor, 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,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1805 - 456 pages
...of the human breaft, i Whofe iron fcourge and tort'ring hour» The bad affright, afflift the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of pain, With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. And purple tyrants vainly groan When firft thy fire to... | |
 | Solomon Hodgson - 1806 - 362 pages
...tamer of the human breaft, Whofe iron fcourge and tott'ring hour, The bad affright, afflia the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught...before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy fire to fend to earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bade to form... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford (bp. of Hereford.) - 1806 - 306 pages
...human breaft, Whofe iron Icourge and tort'ring hour The Bad affright, affliet the Beft ! Bound in thine adamantine chain, The Proud are taught to tafte of...With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firll thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 pages
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in the 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'ly birth,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...power, Thou tamer of the human breast, 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... | |
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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,... 
