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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... "
A History of Eton College. 1440-1875 - Page 301
by Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte - 1877 - 20 pages
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Poems by Mr. Gray

Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pages
...Care, 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
...tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, palid Fear, And Shame that sculks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling...Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye [4], That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow...
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The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ...

Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the...Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye [4], That mocks the tear it forc'd to flow;...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wap, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair,...Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness' alter 'd eye [4], That mocks the tear it forc'd to...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Disdainful anger, pallid fear, And shame that sculks behind; Or pining love shall waste their youth,Or jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the...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 to flow...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...That inly gnaws the secret heart! And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-viuag'd, comfortless Dsspair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. •> Ambition this shall...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 to How;...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Amhition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To hitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness'...
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Cicero's epistles to Atticus, with notes, tr by W. Guthrie, Volume 1

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1806 - 402 pages
...well illustrates sorni Jines in our admired Mr. Gray, Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then hurl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice And grinning infamy. JJJ, fco unaccustomed to insults, should yield to the impulses of grief and revenge. What will become...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. i/iiX,:- '- '-11 '-I'™ ., . ' Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn/ a sacrifice, '. ,' -.'*' t ', t ..,.'' And grinning infamy. The stings of falsehood those shall try', And hard Unkindness'...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...tear, The vulturs of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame, that skulks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling...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 to flow;...
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