| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 898 pages
...There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear , And, where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell ! Slight are the outward signs of evil thought, Within — within — 'twas there the spirit wrought... | |
| Theology - 1839 - 596 pages
...death. In fact he became a very monster, despotic almost beyond recorded despotism, " And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, . • Hope withering fled— and mercy sighed farewell." There is no doubt he acquired a fortune too great and far too rapid to prevent even charity itself... | |
| Marianne Young - Kachchh (India) - 1839 - 330 pages
...passions to plan and execute. Pity is unknown in the schemes of their vengeance ; and the history of Cutch has tales so full of horror in its annals, as at once...Jharrejah's " frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled—and mercy sighed farewell." in length. They are very .proud of this acquisition, and carefully... | |
| Matthew Archdeacon - Connacht (Ireland) - 1839 - 434 pages
...inexplicably mixed, appeared Much to be loved and hated, sought and feared ; • **•** And, where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and mercy sighed farewell ; • •«*•• Linked with one virtue and a thousand crimes, He left an outlaw's name to other... | |
| Isabel Goldsmid - 1839 - 336 pages
....There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear ; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and mercy sighed farewell Bruow. Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met, or never parted, We... | |
| Theology - 1845 - 840 pages
...touches none of the soothing strings in our composition. His wit is never playful and — Where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled and Mercy sighed farewell. He not only kills his victims but, as the Levite did, in the Bible, he cuts the carcass into parts... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1846 - 774 pages
..."There was a laughing devil in his sneer. That raised emotions both of rage and fear ; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell." THE CORSAIR. FROM this day forward Henry's manner and conduct lost that degree of gentleness and consideration... | |
| English fiction - 1847 - 304 pages
...There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That raised emotions hoth of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and mercy sighed farewell. BYRON. AFTER his interview with the countess, Delia Bardia set out for Santa Caterina, to , claim his... | |
| Theresa Cornwallis I. Whitby West ("Mrs. F. West, ") - Ireland - 1847 - 330 pages
...such as a sculptor might rejoice to model, and an expression like Byron's Corsair, " And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and mercy sighed farewell." a Terracina brigand, and ever and anon as he turned round his handsome face, I discovered less of the... | |
| Lady Georgiana Fullerton - 1849 - 348 pages
...There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That raised emotions botli of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell." THE CORSAIR FROM this day forward Henry's manner and conduct lost that degree of gentleness and consideration... | |
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