 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
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...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 us to pcnanee." Gray, in his... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1804 - 224 pages
...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... | |
 | Gleanings - 1805 - 246 pages
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 288 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 die heav'nly birth,... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford (bp. of Hereford.) - 1806 - 306 pages
...The Bad affright, affliet the Beft ! Bound in thine adamantine chain, The Proud are taught to tafte of Pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan 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,... | |
 | Solomon Hodgson - 1806 - 362 pages
...hour, The bad affright, afflia 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 to earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth,... | |
 | Philostratus (the Athenian) - 1806 - 686 pages
...divinior. Miltoni sui meminerat GRAÏCS» m hymno to adversity féliciter sane scripto nec adveras musís : Bound in thy adamantine chain The proud are taught to taste of pain. Nec aliter capi débet TASSI Italorum Virgilii versus vu. 88. . . . ,1'elmo adamantine avea le tempre.... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...Whose iron-scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine1 chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly grpan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...tamer of the human breast, "Whose iron scourge and tjrt'ring hour The had affright, aflUct the best! y Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain1 And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpity'd and alone. When first thy... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 pages
...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 impropriety and incongruity.... | |
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