 | Jacob Cats, Robert Farlie - Emblems - 1860 - 274 pages
...means to lay their towering schemes Low in the dust, and teach them they are nothing. THOMSON. THOUGH plung'd in ills, and exercis'd in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair : When press'd by dangers, and beset by foes, The gods their timely succour interpose ; And... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...round my heart, and brightens up my sorrow, Like gleams of sunshine in a low'ring sky. Though plunged in ills, and exercis'd in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair : When prest by dangers and beset with foes, The gode their timely succour interpose ; And... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - Illustrators - 1902 - 414 pages
...event, have prevented her from a rash action, that must have rendered the moral ineffectual : Though plung'd in ills, and exercis'd in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair, Where press'd by dangers, and beset with foes, The gods their timely succour interpose ; And... | |
 | Gordon Pocock - Drama - 1973 - 340 pages
...wickedness of Oreste's crime and then Andromaque to express her satisfaction and set out the moral: Though plung'd in ills, and exercis'd in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair: When prest by dangers and beset with foes, The gods their timely succour interpose; And when... | |
 | Toni Bowers - Family & Relationships - 1996 - 282 pages
...Mr. B. in Part i, like Pyrrhus's brutal wooing, had been a dangerous game of wits and timing. Though plung'd in Ills, and exercis'd in Care, Yet never let the noble Mind despair. When press'd by Dangers and beset with Foes, The Gods their timely Succour interpose; And... | |
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Though plung'd in ills, and exercis'd in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair: When press'd by dangers, and beset with foes, The gods their timely succour interpose ; And when our virtue sinks, o'erwhelm'd with grief, By unforeseen expedients, bring... 
