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Page 14
... feeling , fiery hero ; a character , the errors of which are now consummated by an act of murder , so affectingly managed , that censure is swallowed up in pity : the murderer is absolved by the weeping auditory , who are 14 PREFACE .
... feeling , fiery hero ; a character , the errors of which are now consummated by an act of murder , so affectingly managed , that censure is swallowed up in pity : the murderer is absolved by the weeping auditory , who are 14 PREFACE .
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Hannah More. murderer is absolved by the weeping auditory , who are ready , if not to justify the crime , yet to vindicate the criminal . The drow- sy moral at the close slowly attempts to creep after the poison of the piece ; but it ...
Hannah More. murderer is absolved by the weeping auditory , who are ready , if not to justify the crime , yet to vindicate the criminal . The drow- sy moral at the close slowly attempts to creep after the poison of the piece ; but it ...
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... weep , to mourn , a father's cruel fate- To love him with soul - rending tenderness— To know no peace by day , or rest by night— To bear a bleeding heart in this poor bosom , Which aches and trembles but to think he suffers ; This is my ...
... weep , to mourn , a father's cruel fate- To love him with soul - rending tenderness— To know no peace by day , or rest by night— To bear a bleeding heart in this poor bosom , Which aches and trembles but to think he suffers ; This is my ...
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... weep with anguish o'er thy cruel chains . Reg . Dost thou not know that life ' s a slavery ? The body is the chain that binds the soul ; A yoke that every mortal must endure . Wouldst thou lament - lament the general fate , The chain ...
... weep with anguish o'er thy cruel chains . Reg . Dost thou not know that life ' s a slavery ? The body is the chain that binds the soul ; A yoke that every mortal must endure . Wouldst thou lament - lament the general fate , The chain ...
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... weeping , wretched daughter , Who begs a father's life - not hers alone , But Rome's his country's father . Man ... weep ! Indulge , indulge , my lord , the virtuous softness : Was ever sight so graceful , so becoming , As pity's ...
... weeping , wretched daughter , Who begs a father's life - not hers alone , But Rome's his country's father . Man ... weep ! Indulge , indulge , my lord , the virtuous softness : Was ever sight so graceful , so becoming , As pity's ...
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