 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...pain, The unfeeling for his own. Gray's Elm Coilfgt. These shall the fury passions tear, The vulture of the mind, Disdainful anger, pallid fear, And shame...jealousy, with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the seeret heart. And envy wan, and faded eare, Grim-visag'd eomfortless despair, And sorrow's piereing... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Psychology - 1855 - 308 pages
...I suppose, will be to the personifications of poetry. Woe to such lines as ' These shall the fiery passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful...Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that skulks behind.' As to figurative language generally, you yourself cannot possibly avoid it. I will undertake to find... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...whatever .opinion may he formed of the view of life which it suggeata. These1 shall the fury Passions2 tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger,...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murtherous band! Ah, tell them they are men! These shall the fury Passions tear,* The vultures...waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth, s v That inly gnaws the secret heart; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...60 These ' shall the fury 2 Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, 1 dir. obj. г a noun epithet 65 Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care,... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murtherous band! Ah, tell them they are men! 60 , but Time decays? 0 fearful meditation! where, alack, Shall Time's 65 Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws the secret heart, And Envy wan, and faded Care,... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - Europe - 1928 - 454 pages
...them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murtherous band! Ah, tell them, they are men ! These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that sculks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly gnaws... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...mid-eighteenth-century verse is a forest of exclamation marks. Gray also uses personification much as Collins does: These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of...waste their youth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, . . . The Eton College ode manages these devices well. Essentially a contemplative poem, it starts... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 768 pages
...To seize their prey the murtherous band! Ah, tell them, they are men! These shall the fury Passion tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger,...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... | |
 | Louis Crompton - History - 2009 - 652 pages
...where "ignorance is bliss." But Gray contemplates the grim fate that may await them in later years: "These shall the fury Passions tear, / The vultures.../ Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, / And Shame that lurks behind," mixed, for good measure, with "bitter Scorn" and "grinning Infamy." Here is the pessimistic... | |
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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... 
