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...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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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...shown To every failing but their own, And every wo a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. The mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...narrowing as it glows, The flames around their captive cloie. BYKON'S WORKS. One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourish'd for her foes, Whose...