 | John Kitto - 1868 - 524 Seiten
...exist. What is guilt but a state or condition, — resulting from evil thoughts, or words, or deeds ? " Tis the fiend, Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind With whips and stings." It is the dark shadow of what has gone before, and as the shadow has no existence apart from... | |
 | British dramatists - 1868 - 138 Seiten
...So that I know not what to stay upon, And less to put in act. Ben Jonson. THE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS. To be good is to be happy ; angels Are happier than men, because they're better. Guilt is the source of sorrow. 'Tis a fiend, Th' avenging fiend that follows... | |
 | 1874 - 360 Seiten
...see and know its progress. It as surely comes back to him, as lies come home to roost. Km. HT Ckeever TO be good is to be happy ; angels Are happier than men, because they're better. Rmt. IF a hundred persons are shut up in a dungeon, and a messenger announces... | |
 | John Bowring - 1877 - 432 Seiten
...passage comes back to my thoughts as vividly as when I heard it more than three-score years ago : — " To be good is to be happy. Angels are happier than men, because they are better. Guilt is the source of sorrow. It is a fiend — the avenging fiend which... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 328 Seiten
...others, and to conquer yourself. Even the prosaic Rowe rises to poetry when he announces this truth : " To be good is to be happy. Angels are happier than men because they're better." DREAMS OF WORLD-HAPPINESS. T is not the fate of every author that he adds... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 Seiten
...Guiltiness will speak though tongues were out of use. Sh. OIL V. 1. Guilt is the souree of sorrow ; 'tis the fiend, Th' avenging fiend that follows us behind With whips and stings. fioicc. Let no man trust the first false step Of guilt ; it hangs upon a precipice, Whose steep... | |
 | 1888 - 252 Seiten
...; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence, is to live twice. Martial. To be good is to be happy ; angels Are happier than men, because they're better. N. Eowe. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed... | |
 | Samuel Briggs, Nathaniel Ames - 1891 - 516 Seiten
...to be Happy ; Angels Are happier than Men, because they'er better. Guilt is the Source of Sorrow ; 'tis the Fiend, Th' avenging Fiend, that follows us behind With Whips and Stings ; the Bless'd know none of this, But rest in everlasting Peace of Mind, And find the height... | |
 | Samuel Briggs, Nathaniel Ames - 1891 - 514 Seiten
...At their Tribunal they'l not deign to save One Soul that thinks not just as they would have. APRII,. To be Good is to be Happy ; Angels Are happier than Men, because they'er better. Guilt is the Source of Sorrow; 'tis the Fiend, Th' avenging Fiend, that follows... | |
 | 1910 - 650 Seiten
...each bush an officer ; or th/> somewhat similar passage in Rowe : — Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend— Th' avenging fiend— that follows us behind With whips and stings. As far as allegory is concerned, might not Coleridge's ' Ancient Mariner,' or Hood's * Dream... | |
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Th' avenging fiend that follows us behind With whips and stings. The blest... 
