 | John Colin Dunlop - Spain - 1834 - 440 pages
...on the Rhine. CHAPTER IV. RISE AND FALL OF VALENZUELA. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. GRAY'S Eton College. AMIDST those disasters by which Spain was afflicted and overwhelmed in almost... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Spain - 1834 - 462 pages
...- ' -.,:•!•• -IT, RISE AND FALL OF VALENZUELA. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. GRAY'S Eton College. AMIDST those disasters by which Spain was afflicted and overwhelmed in almost... | |
 | John Landseer - Painting - 1834 - 534 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 1 alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it... | |
 | 1835 - 542 pages
...flying too high, melted his waxen wings and fell into the sea." GRAY expresses the idea very finely : Ambition this shall tempt to rise. Then hurl the wretch...high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice. And grinning infamy ! 79. COUNT not your Chickens before they are hatched; Or, according to a Latin adage, Do not sound... | |
 | Frances Catherine BARNARD - 1836 - 182 pages
...FIRST HOURS OF ROYALTY; OR, A QUEEN'S REVENGE. AD 1714. Ambition this shall tempt to rise ; Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy. GRAY. SCENE I. Hotel at Pampeluna. QUEEN and ALBERONI. ALBERONI. I HAVE received your Majesty's summons... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 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' altcr'd eye, That mocks the tear it forc'd... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...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, And grinning infamy. And stings of' falsehood those shall try, And ham unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forced... | |
 | Graves Champney Haughton - Reasoning - 1839 - 292 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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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... 
