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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... "
Memoirs of Eminent Etonians: With Notices of the Early History of Eton College - Page 308
by Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 504 pages
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...cheeks And lilies for the brows of faded age, 60 Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, 1 Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high. Gray. Eton ColI. 2 When lo ! push'd up to power, and crown'd their cares. In comes another set, and...
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Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...cheeks And lilies for the brows of faded age, 80 Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, 1 Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high. Gray. Eton Coll. 5 When lo ! push'd up to power, and crown'd their cares, In comes another set, and...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...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 Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pages
...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 Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then...
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Illustrations of Human Life, Volume 2

Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 338 pages
...ambition, but an honest one. Why are they now to be told, before their time, that ambition ' Shall whirl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy f" Still more, why arc they unnecessarily to be warned of < Hard unkiniliicss" alter'd eye, That mockg...
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The Young Man's Book of Elegant Poetry: Comprising Selections from the Works ...

1838 - 332 pages
...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...Grim-visaged comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dartAmbition this shall tempt to rise ; Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice,...
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Prodromus, Or an Inquiry Into the First Principles of Reasoning: Including ...

Graves Chamney Haughton - 1839 - 298 pages
...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 Care, Grim-visag'd, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then...
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Prodromus: Or, An Inquiry Into the First Principles of Reasoning; Including ...

Graves Champney Haughton - 1839 - 292 pages
...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 Care, Grim-visag'd, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then...
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Prodromus, Or, An Inquiry Into the First Principles of Reasoning: Including ...

Graves Champney Haughton - 1839 - 294 pages
...And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Amhition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To hitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness'...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

1840 - 372 pages
...men ! These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, That inly gnaws the secret heart :. And Envy wan,...hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forced to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood defiled, And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest...
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