 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...The patient search and vigil long Of him who treasures up a wrong. 12. THE SCOBPION — HEMOBSE. Tlve mind that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the scorpion...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... | |
 | Baptists - 1882 - 538 pages
...experience than Byron, and he furnishes this awful picture of what a soul suffers from its pangs : "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 and the sole relief she knows ; The sting... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society, Medico-Legal Society of New York - Insanity (Law) - 1886 - 628 pages
...life is gone, Byron has graphically described this in " The Giour," by the following lines : " * * * * like the scorpion girt by fire, • In circle narrowing...The flames around their captive close, 'Till inly scorched by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire. One sad and sole relief she knows — The sting,... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - Geographical myths - 1883 - 412 pages
...sting into its own brain. It is to this belief that Lord Byron refers in his poem of the Giaour. " The mind that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...circle narrowing as it glows, The flames around their victim close Till inly searched by thousand throes, And maddening in its ire, One sad and sole relief... | |
 | rev. William John Hocking - 1883 - 416 pages
...hell as hot as any hell could be. Said he, " I know full well what Byron meant when he wrote : — " ' The mind that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the scorpion girt by fire, In circling nature as it glows The flames around their captive close, Till inly scorched by thousand throes,... | |
 | 1884 - 404 pages
...into its head or body, and instantly die. Byron refers to these insect Catos in the following lines : "The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the...The flames around their captive close, 'Till, inly scorch'd by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows : The sting... | |
 | Medicine - 1884 - 734 pages
...into its head or body, and instantly die. Byron refers to these insect Catos in the following lines: " The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the...The flames around their captive close, 'Till, inly scorch'd by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows: The sting... | |
 | English poetry - 1885 - 668 pages
...their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. REMORSE. [The Giaour.] 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... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...self-condemned He deals on his own soul. ConSciencr. — Byron. THE Mind, that broods o'er guilty woess Is like the scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing...glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly search' d by thousand throia, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 260 pages
...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,*5 The flames around their captive close, Till inly search'd by thousand throes, And maddening... | |
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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... 
