 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, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs...  The Nabob at Home; Or, The Return to England - Seite 93von Mrs. Monkland - 1842Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 Seiten
...violate the dignity." — What is this, after all, but to " damn u with faint praise i"'J JL/AUGHTER 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 Seiten
...objections violate the dignity."—What is this, after all, but to "damn " with faint praise f ty ] 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 Seiten
...objections " violate the dignity." — What is this, after all, but " to " damn withfaint praise .?"] DAUGHTER of Jove, 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... | |
 | 1804 - 452 Seiten
...throat ;" Mr. Pope, " is k tor tkec the linnet pours her throat." Gray addresses adversity, " Tho» tamer of the human breast, whose iron scourge and torturing hour, the bad affright, afflict the best." Milton says " when the scourge inexorably, and the torturing hour, call... | |
 | Gleanings - 1805 - 246 Seiten
...the foundation of the Dutch fisheries, which have proved a mine of wealth to them. Hymn to Adversity. Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast; Whose iron scourge, and tort'ring boor, The bad affright, afflict the best. Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 Seiten
...wise. ODE IV. TO ADVERSITY. Zvta To» tra.no., ru vct&et pM$a> ©frra Kfpi»i( tjytt, S, in Agamcmuone. 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 Seiten
...THROAT? Essay on Man. Ep. in. v. 33. Gray in the " Ode to Adversity " addresses the power thus, " Tbou Tamer of the human breast, Whose IRON SCOURGE and TORTURING HOUR The bad affright, afflict the best.". Wakefield censures the expression " torturing hour " by discovering an... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 Seiten
...is. still* > Within the groves of Grougar Hill, 3 DYEE. CHAP. VIII. *. '* HYMN TO ADVERSITY. DHUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tott'ring hour, The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in the adamantine chain, The proud are taught... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 Seiten
...ignorance is bliss, 'Tis fully to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY. jfíuic jbichylus, in Agamemnone. DACCHTE« 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, And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 Seiten
...hopeless, hear thee sayFarewell, we meet no more ? 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! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught... | |
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