 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.  Practical Education - Page 270by Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1835 - 549 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 176 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...heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse ! thy ri«id lore With patience many a ye,ir she bore; What sorrow was, thou bad'st... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 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...heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse:! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore; What sorrow was, thou bad'st... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 508 pages
...unpuicd, and alone. When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, dcfign'd, To thce he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ; thy rigid lore With patience many a year {he bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...taught to taste of pain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs uuielt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child , designed , To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade thee form her infant mind. Stern , rugged... | |
 | Gleanings - 1805 - 246 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 designed; To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...taught to taste of pain1 And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpity'd 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 bdde to form her infan-: tnind ; Stern nigged nurse! thy rigid lore "With patience... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...taught to taste of pain, And purple Tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfclt 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 bad to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse! thy rigid lore With patience many... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...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 heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. • « Stern rugged... | |
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