 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Europe - 1841 - 320 pages
...prophecy while looking at some former generation of Eton boys. Mrs. repeated them : " These shall the fnry passions tear, The vultures of the mind ; Disdainful...gnaws the secret heart, And envy wan, and faded care, Grim-visaged, comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart." This is undoubtedly powerful poetry,... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Europe - 1841 - 658 pages
...Gray's doleful prophecy while looking at some former generation of Eton boys.— Mrs. repeated them: " These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of...waste their youth, Or jealousy, with rankling tooth, • What would probably be served for an extempore lunch at an American inn ? Bread and butter, (probably... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1842 - 524 pages
...RECOLLECTIONS OF A SPORTSMAN'S LIFE. BY THE EDITOR. CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH : LA FRATERNITE D'ARGUS. " These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart." — GRAY. ABOUT a league from Paris,... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...Eton, Gray thought of them when they should rise to manhood, and wrote — " These shall the fiery passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful...gnaws the secret heart, And envy wan, and faded care, Grim-visaged, comfortless despair, And sorrow's piercing dart : " and the poet here, as in most other... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murth'rous band ; Ah, tell them they are men ! ief specimen: — The night is chill ; the forest...not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the hut Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...them where in ;imbuJ> stand, To seize their prey, the murth'rous baud ; Ah, tell them they are men ! r, and fell ( jriia-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise,... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 324 pages
...them where in amhunh stand, To seize their prey, the tnurth'rous hand Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks hehind ; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Ot jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...them where in amhu-h stand, To aei« their prey, the murth'roua hud Ah, tell them they are men ! ThrM shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Pear, And Shame that scuiks hehind ; Or pining tove shall waste their youth, Os Jealousy with rankling... | |
 | George Field - Color - 1845 - 334 pages
...description. 264. And thus again sings Gray, figuratively and enharmonically, in broken colours, — " These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...the secret heart ; And Envy wan, a.nd faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart." Wherein every line is allusively figured... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...opinion may be formed of the view of life which it suggests. These1 shall the fury Passions tear,2 The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then... | |
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Shame that skulks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to... 
