 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...tort'ringhour, 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 o ' earth Virtue, his darling child, desi ^nrd, To thee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - 312 pages
...The bad affrighted, 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,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 584 pages
...Whose iron scourge and torturing hour 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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...i 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, design'd, To <hee he gave the heav'nly... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...The bad affright, afflict^he best ! ยป 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,... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 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." GRAY. . *. " The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste was strange to see how they flocked first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 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 hirth,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...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, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, 10 To thee he gave the heavenly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...hour, The bad affright, afflict the best I 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. X2 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,... 
