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" 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... "
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by George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - 1863 - 205 pages
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...affright, afflict: the hrft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafle of paii>, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, bis darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth,...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 64

English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...hour, The bad affright, afflift the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone, When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,...
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Poems Selected and Printed by a Small Party of English, who Made this ...

1792 - 112 pages
...hour The bad affright, afflict the beft! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before , unpitied and alone. ' When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue , his darling child , defign'd , ;To thee he gave the heav'nly...
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Poetical Blossoms. Being a Selection of Short Poems: Intended for Young ...

Richard Johnson - 1793 - 198 pages
...affright, afflia the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone, Whenfirft th/fiis tc 'and on earth Virtue, his darling chiul, defign'd^ To thee he gave the heav'nly...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 pages
...hour, The bad affright, affict the befl ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth . Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ...

Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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...
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The temple of Apollo, being a selection of the best poems, from the most ...

Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...hour, The bad affright, amidft the beft ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to tafte of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth VIRTUE, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,...
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The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ...

Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...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...
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Moore. Cawthorne. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Mallet. Akenside. Gray ...

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 512 pages
...hour, The bad affright, afflid the bell ! Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to tafle of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birch,...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...Adversity. of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, \Vhese iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright , afflict the best] Bound in...of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs uuielt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child ,...
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