 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-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to...  Readings on Poetry - Sivu 29tekijä(t) Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1816 - 212 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1853 - 560 sivua
...shew them where in ambush stand To seize their prey the murderous band ! Ah, tell them they are men! These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 sivua
...show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey the murderous band ! Ah. tell them they are men ! These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care. G-rim-visaged comfortless Despair. OF ETON COLLEGE. 97 Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 362 sivua
...their sight, Sitting alone, his bitter lips did bite." Spenser. FQ vi. 23. That inly gnaws the seeret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piereing dart. ' Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wreteh from high, To bitter Scorn... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 sivua
...Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks bebind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, V. 51. "E'en now, regardless of his doom, Applauding honour haunts his tomb." Collins. Ode on the Death... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sivua
...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 - 2000 - 768 sivua
...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,...gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then... | |
 | Louis Crompton - 2009 - 652 sivua
...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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