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English Grammar in Familiar Lectures: Accompanied by a Compendium ... - Page 165
by Samuel Kirkham - 1833
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ...

Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...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 Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ...

Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...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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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...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...
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Gleanings of wit, interspersed with many original pieces, from the works of ...

Gleanings - 1805 - 246 pages
...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...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...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...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...> 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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 14

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...is bliss, Tib folly to be wise. X TO ADVERSITY. To» /Eschylus, in Agametnnone. DAI'CHTF.P. 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...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...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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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...Great Homer died — three thousand years ago. XIII. — Hymn to Adversity.^ GRAY. 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...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God. ODE TO ADVERSITY. BY THOMAS GRAY. DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The had affright, afflict the best ! Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of...
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