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" Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness... "
Cicero's epistles to Atticus, with notes, tr by W. Guthrie - Page 148
by Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1806
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Poems by Mr. Gray

Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pages
...Grim-vifag'd comfortlefs Defpair, And Sorrow's piercing Jut. Ambition this fhall tempt to rife, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a Sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The ftings of Falfhood thofe fhall try, And hard Unkindnefs' alter'd eye, That mocks the -tear it forc'd...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ...

Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye [4], That mocks the tear...
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The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ...

Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye [4], That mocks the tear...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter 'd eye [4], That mocks the tear...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Grim-visag'd comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy. The stings of falsehood those shall try. And hard unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...comfortless Dsspair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. •> Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy : The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy. The stings of Falshood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 6

1809 - 402 pages
...Grim-vlsag'd comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise; Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy. The stings of falsehood those shall try, And hard unkindness' aller'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd...
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The Muses' Bower,: Embellished with the Beauties of English Poetry, Volume 1

English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, ° And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...Grim.visag'd, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise. Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy : The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it...
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