 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...must seeret passage rind 6 10 To th' inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce aecidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, 615 Though void of corporal sense. My griefs not only pain me As a lingring disease, But finding no... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...infelicities might have filled a Platonic year, for they comprised all griefs which ' On the purest spirit prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense.' It is unnecessary for us, even if our limits would permit our doing so, to describe minutely the events... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1808 - 512 pages
...are fulfilled. Stories of martyrdom are but of chains and the stake ; a little bodily suffer. ing ; these torments On the purest spirits prey As on entrails,...but more intense. What a noble thing is the soul in it strengths and in its weaknesses ! who would be less weak than Calantha ? who can be so strong ?... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...But must secret passage find To the inmost mind, Their exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense. My griefs not only pain me AS a lingering disease, But, finding no redress,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...But must secret passage find To the inmost mind, Their exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense^ Though void of corporal sense. My griefs not only pain me As a lingering disease, But, finding no redress,... | |
 | John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...are but of chains and the stake; a little bodily suffering : these torments - On the purest ipirits prey . As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense. nesses ! Who would be less weak than Calantha I who can be so strong ? The expression of this transcendent... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1813 - 502 pages
...Wife and a Queen arc fulfilled. Stories of martyrdom are but of chains and the stake ; a little bodily suffering ; these torments On the purest spirits prey...but more intense. What a noble thing is the soul in it strengths and in its weaknesses ! who would be less weak than Calantha ? who can be so strong ?... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Drama - 1813 - 508 pages
...are fulfilled. Stories of martyrdom are but of chains and the stake ; a little bodily suffer. ing ; these torments On the purest spirits prey As on entrails,...but more intense. What a noble thing is the soul in it strengths and in its weaknesses ! who would be less weak than Calantha ? who can be so strong ?... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...mutt secret passage find 5:3 Tb i?r inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, 615 Though void of corporal sense. My griefs not only pain me As a lingering disease, But, finding... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - English literature - 1814 - 586 pages
...But must secret passage find To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, •With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense. My griofs not only pain me As a lingering disease, But, finding no redress,... | |
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Calantha, with a holy violence against her nature, keeps closely covered, till the last duties of a wife and a queen are fulfilled. Stories of martyrdom are but of chains and the stake ; a little bodily suffering. These torments " On the purest spirits... 
