| Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambush stand To seize their prey the murth'rous band ! Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury...mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...baleful train ! Ah, shew them where in ambush stand , .. To seize their prey the murth'rous band J Ah, tell them, they are men ! These shall the fury...tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallied Fear, And shame that skulks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth,. Or Jealousy with... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band ! ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF [ciUY. These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, ° And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seise their prey, the murd'tous - wa^te their youth, Or jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart , And «n\y wan,... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah ! shew them where in ambush stand, To seiae their prey, the murd'rous band ! Ah! tell them they are men. These shall the fury passions tear, The vulturs of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame, that skulks behind ; Or pining Love... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...shew them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the nuird'rous hand ! Ah, tell them they arc men!' These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful unger, pallid fear, And shame that skulks behind ; Or pining love shall waste their youth, Or jealousy... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train, Ah, show them where in ambush stand To seize their prey, the murderous baud ! Ah, tell them, they are men ! These shall the...gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train, Ah, show them where in ambush stand To seize their prey, the murderous band ! Ah, tell them, they are men ! These shall the fury...gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...prey, the murderous band ! Ah, tell tin in, they arc men ! These shall the fury passions tear, 'Hie the lap of 1'arth, A youth to fortune a. id to fame unknown, Fair Science fro\Mi'd imt on h Low, shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart, And... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...expresses in a few words, that these children are exposed to all the evils to' which men are liable. "These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart." These. — That is to say, some of these... | |
| |