 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...  Rhoda: A Novel - Page 13by Alethea Lewis - 1816Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter scorn a sacrifice, And grinning infamy : d the more; Bond is but one, but Harpax is a score. P. Each mortal has his pleasure : none deny S forc'd to flow; And keen remorse, with blood defil'd, And moody madness laughing wild Amidst severest... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...tempt to rise, Then whirl the wreteh from high, To bitter seorn a saerifiee, And grinning infamy : ? How shall he keep, what, sleeping or awake, A weaker may surprise, a stronger moeks the tear it fore'd to flow ; And keen remotse, with blood denl'd, And moody madness laughing... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Presses, Issues of - 1826 - 190 pages
...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 to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood defiled, And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. Lo ! in... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...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 to flow ; And keen Remorse with blood defil'd, And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...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 to flow; And keen Remorse, with blood defil'd, And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...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 to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood defil'd, And moody Madness, laughing wild Amid severest... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...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 to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood defil'd, And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...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 to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood defil'd, And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest... | |
 | William Carpenter - Nobility - 1837 - 894 pages
...expression of his countenance, too painfully illustrates the passage of the poet, in which he tells us of " Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forced to flow." Such a man must receive the applause to which his unquestioned abilities reasonably entitle him ; but... | |
 | Graves Champney Haughton - Reasoning - 1839 - 292 pages
...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 to flow ; And keen Remorse, with blood detil'd, And moody Madness laughing wild Amid severest... | |
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