 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 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. Gray. Ambition this shall tempt to rise,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 470 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, G-rim-visag'd comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous band ! Ah, tell them they are men I 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, Then... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 460 pages
...misfortune's baleful train ; Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous band I Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury...their youth, Or jealousy, with rankling tooth, That iniy gnaws the secret heart ; And envy wan, and faded care, Grim-visag'd comfortless despair, And sorrow's... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...Misfortune's baleful train ! Ah ! shew them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murderous band ! Ah ! tell them they are men. These shall the fury...behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jtalousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart ! And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...mid-eighteenth-century verse is a forest of exclamation marks. Gray also uses personification much as Collins does: These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, . . . The Eton College ode manages these devices well. Essentially a contemplative poem, it starts... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 768 pages
...To seize their prey the murtherous band! Ah, tell them, they are men! These shall the fury Passion tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger,...and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To... | |
 | Louis Crompton - History - 2009 - 652 pages
...where "ignorance is bliss." But Gray contemplates the grim fate that may await them in later years: "These shall the fury Passions tear, / The vultures.../ Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, / And Shame that lurks behind," mixed, for good measure, with "bitter Scorn" and "grinning Infamy." Here is the pessimistic... | |
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These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded... 
