 | Patricia Ann Carlson - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 312 pages
...twenty-second chapter of The Prime, in which Cleveland, the rover, gives his history, is also from The Corsair: There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That raised...hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled — and Mercy sign'd farewell. Scott's work may well intervene at times between Byron and Cooper, as I mention several... | |
 | Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - Fiction - 1988 - 548 pages
...sacred call, To pay the injuries of some on all. "There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That caused emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown...of hatred darkly fell, Hope, withering, fled, and mercv sighed farewell!" —Bvron' HERBERT GREYSON had been correct in his conjecture concerning the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...scrutiny, Lest he to Conrad rather should betray Some secret thought, than drag that chiefs today. There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised...hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell ! X. Slight are the outward signs of evil thought, Within— within— Ч was there... | |
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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! 
