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... Translations - Page 36by George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton, William Ewart Gladstone - 1863 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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