 | 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... | |
 | David Nevins Lord - English language - 1855 - 324 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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...inly seareh'd by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One and sole relief she knows, The Bting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose 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... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...din : Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's Conscience is the oracle of God! t. — Byron. 'THE Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One and sole relief she knows : The sting she nourish' d for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain,... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pages
...life, but we are sure they are there, and that they make a hell in the sinner's own breast. For — " 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...relief for coming miseries. 8. THE GciLir CONSCIBKCK. — Byron. The mind that broods o'er guilty woea Is like the scorpion girt by fire : In circle narrowing...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... | |
 | Emma Dorothy E. Nevitte Southworth - 1857 - 426 pages
...conversation with her daughter. CHAPTER XXVII. NIGHT IN DAY. The mind that broods o'er guilty woes la like the scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing...glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly scorched by thousand throes, And maddened in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows : The sting... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1858 - 480 pages
...applies, And plants relief for coming miseries. 8. THE GUILTY CONSCIENCE. — Byron. The mind that hroods o'er guilty woes Is like the scorpion girt by fire...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... | |
 | Plague Spot - Great Britain - 1859 - 632 pages
...girt by fire," ever carry her own sting within herself, till scorned, abandoned, degraded, and — " Inly search'd by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows — " That other curse, drink, and — " So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for Earth, undoom'd... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...long repo^nd planta relief fur coming miseries, the reiirfire' 8. THE GUILTY CONSCIENCE. — Byron. The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the scorpion girt by lire : In circle narrowing as it glows, The flames around their captive close ; Till, inly searched... | |
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The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain... 
