 | David Thomas - 1869 - 296 pages
...conscience startled from its grave. Let Byron describe its anguish, for who felt it more than he ? " The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the...as it glows, The flames around their captive close, The Master Impulse of True Progress. 185 Till inly searched by thousand throes. And maddening in her... | |
 | G. Hunt Jackson - 1870 - 376 pages
...them. Such, in a figure, is the history of sin. It is a ' Fire-god,' and pays its wages in fire. ' The mind that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing as it glows. * * * * So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. * * » * V The Mind, that broods o'er guilty wo«, Is like the Scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing...ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourish'<1 for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...which idiots hug, Nay, wise men flatter with the name of life! E. Young. 488. CONSCIENCE, Hemorso of. tide, CONSCIENCE. CONSECRATION. One and sole relief she knows : The sting she nourish'd for her foes,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 374 pages
...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...Scorpion girt by fire ; In circle narrowing as it glows, B The flames around their captive close, Till inly search'd by thousand throes, And maddening in her... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 376 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 Scorpion girt by fire ; lu circle narrowing as it glows, K The flames around their captive close, Till inly search'd by thousand... | |
 | Samuel Wordsworth Bailey - Bible - 1874 - 732 pages
...of the children of Israel did value; and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me. The mind that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...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... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...which idiots hug, Nay, wise men flatter with the name of life ! Yffiing. 569. CONSCIENCE. Remorse of makes her slave ; But she's a drudge when hector'd...mere vainness Of our credulity to give her more Than and a sole relief she knows : The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain,... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...From the choice spirits of the after-time. Russell Lowell, Mass., 1819—. 31. The Guilty Conscience. The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the...The flames around their captive close ; Till, inly searched by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One, and a sole relief she knows; The sting... | |
 | Joseph Cook - Conscience - 1878 - 314 pages
...most incisive and perhaps the most self-revelatory words Byron ever wrote concerning Conscience: — " The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the...The flames around their captive close ; Till inly scorched by thousand throes, And inly maddening in her ire, One and sole relief she knows, — The... | |
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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... 
