The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain... A Dictionary of Similes - Page 261by Frank Jenners Wilstach - 1916 - 488 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1812 - 576 pages
...ingenuity in the thought, which is very remote from the general style either of the piece or its author. ' The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...as it 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,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1813 - 90 pages
...failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. 290 »*****»* The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...as it glows The flames around their captive close, Till inly search'd by thousand throes, 295 And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows,... | |
| 1813 - 550 pages
...ingenuity in the thought, which is very remote from the general style either of the piece or its author. " The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...as it 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,... | |
| 1813 - 552 pages
...ingenuity in the thought, which is very remote from the general style either of the piece or its author. " The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...as it 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,... | |
| 1813 - 580 pages
...and tone are ta'en, And what they make it, must remain, But break — before it bend again." Again, " The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...as it 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,... | |
| 1813 - 716 pages
...failing but their 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 Scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing us it j^lows The flames around their captive close, Till inly aearch'd by thousand throe;, And maddening... | |
| Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...triumphing In the deed committed and reckless of its consequences. The Mind, that broods o'ef guilty woe?, Is like the Scorpion girt by fire In circle narrowing...as it glows The flames around their captive close, •'Till inly search'd by thousand threes', And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 378 pages
...in soul expire, Or live like Scorpion girt by fire ;17 So writhes the mind Remorse hath riven, 433 Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above,...despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death ! — ******** Black Hassan from the Haraiu flies, Nor bends on woman's form his eyes, 44O The unwonted... | |
| 1814 - 680 pages
...daring a glance at the future, yet triumphing in the deed committed and reckless of its consequences. The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...as it glows The flames around their captive close, TilWnly search'd by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 222 pages
...To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim 420 Except an erring sister's shame. The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...as it glows The flames around their captive close, 425 Till inly search'd by thousand throes, One sad and sole relief she knows. The sting she nourish'd... | |
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