 | Authoress - 1810 - 592 Seiten
...the poet says—• To craz'd and sickly minds: the poor content Revenge is but a frailty, incident Of little souls, unable to surmount An injury, too weak to bear affront. Had your ladyship, and my lady countess, favoured us longer, in your late kind visit, it had been impossible... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 Seiten
...sweet, Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. . ' MILTON, Revenge is but a frailty, incident To craz'd and sickly minds; the poor content .Of little souls,...to surmount An injury ; too wea.k to bear affront. OlDMiM. REVENGE is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1816 - 638 Seiten
...not call it downright revenge — For, as the poet saysRevenge is but a frailty, incident To craz'd and sickly minds ; the poor content Of little souls, unable to surmount An injury, too weak to Lear affront. And I would not be thought to have a little mind, because I know I would not do a />///•.•... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 808 Seiten
...place, vindicliveness; I will not call it downright revenge ; that I will not — For, as the poet says, Revenge is but a frailty, incident To crazed and sickly minds ; the poor content Of little Mtuls, unable to surmount An injury, too weak to bear affront. And I would not be thought to have a... | |
 | James Ewell - 1827 - 868 Seiten
...for him;" and so, without more ado, he was despatched. Revenge is but a frailty, incident To craz'd and sickly minds; the poor content Of little souls, unable to surmount An injury, two weak to bear affront. DRYDEN. Revenge is a great sign of cowardice, when an enemy is at one's mercy.... | |
 | William Nugent Glascock - 1838 - 992 Seiten
...sails, royals, and top-gallant studding-sails. CHAPTER XX. " Revenge is bat a frailty incident To craz'd and sickly minds ; the poor content Of little souls,...surmount An injury, too weak to bear affront." OLDHAM. IN a few hours after this affair with the enemy, the Nonsuch, not a little damaged in her hull, had,... | |
 | William Henry De Merle - 1839 - 332 Seiten
...seemed that he acted on the French adage, " Un coup de couteau se guerit, un coup de langue ne se guerit pas: in court or in company the joke was bitterly...unable to surmount An injury, too weak to bear affront. OLDIIAM. WHAT a lovely contrast to the scenes we have pictured is offered in the calm and sequestered... | |
 | John Oldham - 1854 - 284 Seiten
...thence ; These lead us into right, nor shall we need Other than them through life to be our guide. Revenge is but a frailty, incident To crazed and sickly...unable to surmount An injury, too weak to bear affront; And this you may infer, because we find, 'Tis most in poor unthinking womankind, Who wreak their feeble... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1883 - 462 Seiten
...vindictiveness ; I will not call it downright revenge; that I will not — For, as the poet says — Revenge is but a frailty, incident To crazed and sickly...unable to surmount An injury, too weak to bear affront. And I would not be thought to have a little mind, because I know I would not do a little thing. Vindictiveness,... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1883 - 458 Seiten
...place, vindictiveness; I will not call it downright revenge; that I will not—For, as the poet says— Revenge is but a frailty, incident To crazed and sickly...unable to surmount An injury, too weak to bear affront. And I would not be thought to have a little mind, because I know I would not do a little thing. Vindictiveness,... | |
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Revenge is but a frailty, incident To crazed and sickly minds ; the poor content Of little souls, unable to surmount An injury, too weak to bear affront. 
