 | 1862 - 520 pages
...author ; full of torment — torment to which the cruelest torture of Domitian or Nero were mercy — a hell where human frames were racked with every possible...his eyes involuntarily as he entered, and a shudder ran through his frame as he thought of who might be lying there among those dead and dying men that... | |
 | Marie Louise De la Ramée - 1863 - 338 pages
...author; full of torment — torment to which the cruelest torture of Domitian or Nero were mercy — a hell where human frames were racked with every possible...chastisement for sin, but as a reward for heroism ! De Vigne, used as he had been to death and pain, closed his eyes involuntarily as he entered. There they lay,... | |
 | 1880 - 604 pages
...VOL. II.-i6. of torment — torment to which the crudest torture of Domitian or Nero were mercy — a hell, where human frames were racked with every possible agony, not as a chastisement for sin, but asa reward for heroism. There they lay, packed as closely together as dead animals in a slaughter-house... | |
 | 1880 - 596 pages
...VOL. II.- 16. of torment — torment to which the crudest torture of Domitian or Nero were mercy — a hell, where human frames were racked with every possible...chastisement for sin, but as a reward for heroism. There they lay, packed as closely together as dead animals in a slaughter-house — the many Russians,... | |
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... That long low room, with its arched roof, its square pillars, its dim, cavernous light coming in through the shattered windows, was a sight worse than all the fabled horrors of painter, or poet, or author ; full of... 