...stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band ! Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury- passions tear, The vultures of the mind — Disdainful...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair, Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high...

...while looking at some former generation of Eton boys.— Mrs. repeated them: " These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of the mind ; Disdainful...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...

...SPORTSMAN'S LIFE. BY THE EDITOR. CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH : LA FRATERNITE D'ARGUS. " These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of the mind; Disdainful...comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart." — GRAY. ABOUT a league from Paris, on the road to Versailles, there stood — and probably continues...

...we have probably the nucleus of some unking linea in Gray's " ODE ON ETON COLLEOE :"— '*• — - Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged, comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Lo, in the vale of years beneath, A grisly troop are wen, The painful family of Death, More hideous...

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...stand, To seize their prey, the murth'rous baud ; Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful...gnaws the secret heart ; And Envy wan, and faded Care, ( jriia-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart. Ambition this shall tempt to rise,...

...tove shall waste their youth, Os Jealousy with rankling tooth, 80 PROSPr.CT Or KIuN CUuLEGB. That July gnaws the secret heart. And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visaged comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's pierctng dart. Amhition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To hitter Scorn...

...ambush stand! To seize their prey, the murtb/rous band Ah, tell them they are men ! These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful Anger, pallid Fear, And Shame that scuiks behind ; Or pining Love shall waste their yonth, Or Jealousy with rankling tooth, That inly...

...thus again sings Gray, figuratively and enharmonically, in broken colours, — " These shall the fury Passions tear, The vultures of the mind, Disdainful...comfortless Despair, And Sorrow's piercing dart." Wherein every line is allusively figured or coloured, and he paints the ruthless sisters Fear, Envy,...

...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...Grim-visaged 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...