 | Edward Sellon - 1848 - 170 pages
..." and now be quiet," and he banged too the doors, leaving the adventurer to his own reflections. " The mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly search' d by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire ; One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...strike upon the ear of man, Their memory burst its fetters. LOKD BYRON. BORN, 1788; DIED, 1824. EEMOESE. THE mind that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly searched by thousand throes. And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting... | |
 | David Thomas - 462 pages
...utmost horror. Let Byron describe the anguish of a guilty conscience, for who felt it more than he ? " The mind that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly searched by thousand throes. And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 756 pages
...father1! cottage through the lonely wood, after prayers were over. " The mind that broods o'er guilty won Is like the scorpion girt by fire ; In circle narrowing...as it glows The flames around their captive close. " Unfit for earth, nndoomed for Heaven, Around it flame, within it death." Brso.x. A ROSE. BV JF SHOOTHOUSM.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...shown To every failing but their own, And every wo a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. st foul oppression, Have made irr, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...shown To every failing but then own, And every wo a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. The mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...The flames around their captive close. Till, inly seaich'd by thousand throes. And maddening in her ir«-, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - Bible as literature - 1854 - 316 pages
...scorpion surrounded by fire, is one of the most impressive pictures ever drawn by a human pencil : " The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the...scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing as it glows ; Till inly searched by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One sole and sad relief she knows... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - Bible as literature - 1854 - 320 pages
...the most impressive pictures ever drawn by a human pencil : " The mind that broods o'er guilty woes _ Is like the scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing as it glows ; Till inly searched by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One sole and sad relief she knows... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 410 pages
...shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...glows,' The flames around their captive close, Till inly search 'd by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...flames around their eaptive elose, Till inly seareh'd by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourish'd...venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and eures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain. So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like seorpion... | |
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The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the Scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing as it glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly... 
