 | David Nevins Lord - 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 - 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 833 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...was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, Arid darts into her desperate brain: So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire;... | |
 | 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 - 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 - 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...the Scorpion girt by fire, In cirele narrowing as it glows, The flames around their captive elose, Till inly search'd by thousand throes, And maddening...was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, a The blue-winged butterfly of Eaahmeer, the most rara Mid beimllful of tl» •pecies.— B. And darts... | |
 | Plague Spot - 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... | |
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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... 
