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If we can accept the Culex in its present form as genuine, the development of Virgil's genius is shown to us in a still earlier stage. It is true the critics torment us by their doubts. Some insist that it cannot be by Virgil.
She had it now in her possession once more, for Philostratus had had it taken back to her house while the emperor was at his meal. She rested on a sofa, quite worn out. She had passed through hours of torment; for her concern about Melissa, who had become very dear to her, had given her much more anxiety than even the loss of her beloved picture.
He had found his pen his great solace, and he had never employed it so well. It would be incredible what a heap of things he wrote in this complicated torment of imprisonment, sickness, and "physic," if habit and mental activity had not been sufficient to account for much greater wonders.
I say it's a burning shame for Sir Victor, so fond as he is of her too, to let Miss Inez torment her. I wouldn't stand her hairs and her 'aughtiness, her temper and her tongue; no, not to be ten baronets' ladies, ten times hover!" In his pretty blue silk, white lace, and carved rosewood nest, Master Victor lay still, sleeping also. Mrs.
Once, when she couldn't bring herself to carry out an order she'd been given with threats of torment to him if she failed she'd received a human finger in the mail, and a scrawled and blood-stained note which cried out of unspeakable torment and begged her not to doom him to more.
The Priest and the Levite still pass the wounded man, and the good Samaritans are rare on this world's highways. What was Walter to do? He did not know the very name of psychology, but he did know the unhinging, desolating power of an overmastering spirit of fear. He knew that fear hath torment, but he had no conception by what means that demon can be exorcised.
It makes us think the Great Spirit means to help us, and that we shall kill all the pale- faces. When we get further into your settlements, we do not expect to meet many such braves as you. They tell us we shall then find men who will run, and screech like women. It will not be a pleasure to torment such men.
This name and address were engraved upon the baron's memory, never to be effaced. "However," resumed M. de Valorsay, "the poor count was fated to have no peace. The husband had scarcely ceased to torment him, he had scarcely begun to breathe freely, when the wife attacked him in her turn. She must have been one of those vile and despicable women who make a man hate the entire sex.
The chief impression that he left upon my mind was, that he should soon be freed from the torment of existence: not by the course of nature; he complained, with agony, that labour, disappointment, injustice, and contamination itself could not kill him; but die he would! 'From that day to this, I have never seen or heard word of him more.
But thirst began to torment him, and then, all of a sudden, he went souse into the creek that there emptied into the sea. That way of life went on for several days.
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