 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...sake ; If early habits — those false links, which bind At times the loftiest to the meanest mindHave given her power too deeply to instil The angry essence...your walls, Till the black slime betray her as she crawl." ; If, like a viper, to the heart she wind, And leave the venom there she did not find ; What... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1822 - 102 pages
...sake ; If early habits — those false links, which bind At times the loftiest to the meanest mindHave given her power too deeply to instil The angry essence...her as she crawls ; If, like a viper, to the heart elie wind, And leave the venom there she did not find ; "What marvel that this hag of hatred works... | |
 | Louise Swanton-Belloc - 1824 - 400 pages
...duplicité, les grimaces insultantes aux sourires, elle sait à propos faire briller la candeur au milieu If, like a snake , she steal within your walls . Till the black slime betrav heras she crawls; If, like a viper, to the heart shc wind, And Icave the venom there she did... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...why — before her quake ; If daughters dread her for the mothers' sake ; If early habits — those false links, which bind At times the loftiest to the...within your walls, Till the black slime betray her aa she crawls ; If like a viper to the heart she wind, A ud leave the venom there she did not find... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1870 - 504 pages
...herself to make mischief between them. He says: — " If early habits, — those strong links that bind At times the loftiest to the meanest mind, —...crawls ; If like a viper to the heart she wind, And leaves the venom there she did not find, — What marvel that this hag of hatred works Eternal evil... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1870 - 500 pages
...herself to make mischief between them. He says: — " If early habits, — those strong links that bind At times the loftiest to the meanest mind, —...crawls ; If like a viper to the heart she wind, And leaves the venom there she did not find, — What marvel that this hag of hatred works Eternal evil... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1870 - 352 pages
...early habits — those false links, which bind At times the loftiest to the meanest rniud — Hiive given her power too deeply to instil The angry essence...within your walls Till the black slime betray her as sho crawls; If like a viper to the heart she wind, And leave the venom there she did not liml, What... | |
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - 1872 - 218 pages
...why — before her quake, If daughters dread her for the mothers' sake ; If early habits — those false links, which bind At times the loftiest to the...like a viper to the heart she wind, And leave the venorn there she did not find ; What marvel that this hag of hatred works Eternal evil latent as she... | |
 | Frank F. Gibson - 1904 - 222 pages
...swelters in its course." Byron goes to the extreme of explaining the actual colour of the "slime": "If like a snake she steal within your walls Till the black slime betray her as she crawls." Shakespeare is even more explicit. In the play of Antony and Cleopatra, after the Queen has died from... | |
 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - 1923 - 1010 pages
...their dietary." That Snakes are Slimy " The slimy serpent swelters in its course." Chatterton. " // like a snake she steal within your walls Till the black slime betray her as she crawls." Byron. " There is an aspic's trail, and these fig leaves Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves... | |
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If daughters dread her for the mothers' sake ; If early habits — those false links, which bind At times the loftiest to the meanest mind — Have given her power too deeply to instil The angry essence of her deadly will ; If like a snake she steal within... 
