Heaven has but Our sorrow for our sins ; and then delights To pardon erring man : Sweet mercy seems Its darling attribute, which limits justice ; . • As if there were degrees in infinite, And infinite would rather want perfection,. * Than punish to... The British drama - Page 210by British drama - 1804Full view - About this book
| Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 476 pages
...pagan, and talks in the sentiments of revealed religion.' — " Heaven has but Its darling attribnte, which limits justice ; As if there were degrees in...would rather want perfection Than punish to extent." — ' I might show several faults of the same nature in the celebrated Aurenge-Zebe. The impropriety... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 472 pages
...sudden, he drops the pagan, and talks in the sentiments of revealed religion.' — " Heaven has but Our sorrow for our sins, and then delights To pardon erring man. Sweet mercy seems Iu darling attribute, which limits justice; As if there were degrees in infinite : And infinite would... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 360 pages
...sudden he drops the pagan, and talks in the sentiments of revealed religion. —— Heaven has but Our sorrow for our sins, and then delights To pardon erring...would rather want perfection Than punish to extent : I might show several faults of the same nature in the celebrated Aurenge-Zebe. The impropriety of... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 324 pages
...revealed religion. Heaven has but Our sorrow for our sins, and then delights To pardon erring mail. Sweet mercy seems Its darling attribute, which limits...would rather want perfection Than punish to extent ' I might shew several faults of the same nature in the celebrated Aurenge Zebe. The impropriety of... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...balanced her ; for Heaven is in her, And joys which I must never dream of more. Lee's Ctesar Borgia. I can forgive A foe, but not a mistress, and a friend...horrid shape, Where trust is greatest ! and the soul resign'd, Is stabb'd by her own guards. Dryden's Ml for Love. Fatally fair they are, and in their smiles... | |
| British drama - English drama - 1824 - 814 pages
...and broke through at first. Dol. Forgive your mistress. Ant. I can forgive Cleo. Forgive your friend. A foe; but not a mistress, and a friend: Treason is...in its most horrid shape, Where trust is greatest. I'll hear no more ; Hence from my sight, for ever. Cleo. How? forever! I cannot go one moment from... | |
| 1826 - 316 pages
...of a sudden he drops the pagan, and talks in the sentiments of revealed religion. Heaven has but Our sorrow for our sins, and then delights To pardon erring...would rather want perfection Than punish to extent " I might shew several faults of the same nature in the celebrated Aurenge Zebe. The impropriety of... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...me. Jfiba. Deep horrow seizes every human breast ; Their pride is humbled, and their fear conffsi. I can forgive A foe, but not a mistress, and a friend...horrid shape Where trust is greatest '. and the soul Is stabb'd by her own guards. _ The contagion of these ill precedents, bout in °* vility and virtue,... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...Jft&s*. Deep horrour seizes every human breast ; Their pride is humbled, and their fear co&fesf. Dryin. I can forgive A foe, but not a mistress, and a friend...' Treason is there in its most horrid shape Where truit is greatest ! and the sool resigned Is stabb'd by her own guards. U The contagion of these ill... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...Milton. Deep hitrrovr seizes every human breast ; Their pride is humbled, and their fear confrsl. Dryden. I can forgive A foe, but not a mistress, and a friend ! Treason is there in its most horrid shape Wbcre truit is greatest ! and the soul resigned Is stabb'd by her own guards. Id The contagion of these... | |
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