 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 unfelt before, unpitied, and alone.  Examinations Papers - Page 111891Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1778 - 182 pages
...before, unpitied and alone. When When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year fhe bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 456 pages
...of Jove, relentlefs Power, When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth,. And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ; thy rigid lore With patience many a year flie bore i . • •• What forrow was, thou bad'ft... | |
 | English poetry - 1782 - 518 pages
...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, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year ftie bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1786 - 210 pages
...unpitied and alone. F 2 When I When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year fhe bore : What forrow was, thou bad.ft her know,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...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, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ; thy rigid lore With patience many a year fhe bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, • To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year flie bore; What What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...before, unpitied and alone. When firft thy Sire to fend on earth . Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year flie bore. What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know ;... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...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, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse! thy rigid lore With patience... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...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, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ; thy rigid lore l With patience many a year me bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know,... | |
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