 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1909 - 448 ページ
...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 - 1910 - 306 ページ
...naturally classify themselves in gloom and power with " Cain," one figure constantly recurs. Sometimes There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised...fell, Hope, withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell ! At other times this figure was depicted merely as Lord of himself — that heritage of woe, That... | |
 | Edgar Meck Dilley - 1911 - 400 ページ
...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...hatred darkly fell, Hope withering, fled, and mercy sighed farewell. — Byron: Corsair. THE supreme moment in the lives of both Nicholas and myself had... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 ページ
...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...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 love in haste,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1912 - 696 ページ
...the herd of deer follows the leading stag, with all manner of respectful observance." CHAPTER XXII *There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear ; And whore his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering tied — and Mercy sigh'd farewell. The Corsair,... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - 1913 - 364 ページ
...naturally classify themselves in gloom and power with "Cain," one figure constantly recurs. Sometimes "There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised...Hope, withering, fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!" At other times this figure was depicted merely as " Lord of himself — that heritage of woe, That... | |
 | John Edward Patterson - 1913 - 432 ページ
...SLAVE-CARRYING AND SMUGGLING "Thou salt-water thief! " SHAKESPEARE. There was a laughing devil in his sneer; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell! He left a Corsair's name to other times, Link'd with one virtue and a thousand crimes. BYRON. In pestilential... | |
 | William Henry Skaggs - 1915 - 368 ページ
...policies, have led the American people to believe that he is a typical corsair of whom it could be said : " There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That raised...Hope withering fled — and Mercy sigh'd farewell." But Dr. Miinsterberg is an honourable man, devoted to the Kaiser ; he speaks with knowledge and authority,... | |
 | William Winter - 1915 - 774 ページ
...Overreach, thought that one just impression of him as an actor was indicated in four lines of "The Corsair": "There was a laughing devil in his sneer That raised...hatred darkly fell Hope, withering, fled, and Mercy sighed farewell." VARIOUS NOTABLE ROMEO3— FROM ELLISTON TO ROBINSON. Elliston, a dashing comedian,... | |
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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... 
