 | Walter Scott - Orkney (Scotland) - 1906 - 606 pages
...leading stag, with all manner of respectful observance.1 CHAPTER XXII There was a laughing devil in bis sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear...hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled — and Mercy sigb'd farewell. The Corsair, Canto I. THE ling or white fishery is the principal employment of the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1907 - 1376 pages
...scrutiny, 220 Lest he to Conrad rather should betray Some secret thought, than drag that Chief's to-day. There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised...both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darklv fell, Hope withering fled — and Mercy sighed farewell ! * ' That Conrad is a character not... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...egotist, the fool, or the knave, or all three.— Lavater. There was a laughing devil in his sneer, which . B. Dickerson co. — liyron. The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals,... | |
 | William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson - Artists - 1908 - 342 pages
...beyond all doubt. Witness after witness is here to his wit, his insight, his grip on essentials, his 1 There was a laughing devil in his sneer That raised...emotions both of rage and fear ; And where his frown of hntred darkly fell, Hope, withering, fled — and Mercy sighed farewell. 2 These details are Patmore's,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...egotist, the fool, or the knave, or all three. — Lavater. There was a laughing devil in his sneer, which HhV+ tied, and mercy sighed farewell. — Лугой. The most insignificant people are the most apt to... | |
 | Commercial travellers - 1909 - 448 pages
...him off my list, to be remembered only as incidental to the versatile features of travelling : — And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled — and Mercy signed farewell. One gathers from newspaper accounts that a miscreant of this calibre, with a forgiving... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Presidents - 1910 - 306 pages
...naturally classify themselves in gloom and power with " Cain," one figure constantly recurs. Sometimes There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised...hatred darkly fell, Hope, withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell ! At other times this figure was depicted merely as Lord of himself — that heritage... | |
 | Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - Ireland - 1910 - 802 pages
...united with indomitable pride."2 If it would scarcely be just to say of this grim Lord, " Where'er his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled and mercy sighed farewell " — it is yet true that when prosecuting his own selfish ends he allowed no sentiments of justice... | |
 | Edgar Meck Dilley - Bharbazonia (Imaginary place) - 1911 - 400 pages
...he said coldly, " perhaps you will be good enough to explain." CHAPTER XX THE FAILURE OF FRIENDSHIP There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That raised...fell, Hope withering, fled, and mercy sighed farewell. — Byron: Corsair. THE supreme moment in the lives of both Nicholas and myself had arrived. But Solonika's... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...heart. 2119 Byron: Two Foscari. Act iv. Sc. 1 There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That rais'd emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown...hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell! 2120 Byron : Corsair. Canto I St. 9. Now hatred is hy far the longest pleasure ; Men... | |
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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 sigh'd farewell! 
