 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...and magnificent to what is low and. vulgar. • " ' " Ambition this shall tempt to qse, . Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness' altered eye, That mocks the tear, it forc'd... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...Grim-visaged, 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 forced... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 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... | |
 | Mrs. Hofland (Barbara) - 1820 - 332 pages
...beneficial and endearing to all who loved her. CHAP. VII. Ambition this shall teach to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy. GRAY. AT the time we left Colonel Han way paying his devoirs to Mrs. Espinar, it was by no means his... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1821 - 192 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...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' alterM eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...the penalty which it must pay for its gratification. " Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high ; To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy." Gray. Miscellaneous Illustrations. WHITE LADY. APPARITIONS. THE motley character of our author's supernatural... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Grim-visag'd comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl hundred smart in Timon and in Balaam: The fewer still you name, you w : The stings of falsehood those shall try, And hard unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it... | |
 | Francis S. Higginson - Northern Ireland in literature - 1825 - 586 pages
...annihilate, never chastens but to save ! CHAPTER XXXIV. " Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high ; To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy. GHAT. IN the mean time, preparations for carrying the orders into execution received by General Trueshot,... | |
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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... 
