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Updated: May 13, 2025
At length, however, the retributive powers of conscience were thoroughly aroused those powers which in all literature have formed the theme of the deepest tragedy; which in the Bible are typified by Cain, escaping as a fugitive and a vagabond from the cry of his brother's blood; which in Greek literature are shadowed forth by the terrible figures of the Eumenides, with gorgon faces and blood-dropping eyes, following silently but remorselessly those upon whose track they have been set; and which in Shakespeare are represented in the soul-curdling scenes of Macbeth and Richard III. He was seized with an uncontrollable desire to undo what he had done.
Let the ravens rejoice! And the vassals cried, 'So let it be! The wrath of Chilperic is an abyss into which his enemies fall and perish! Then Septimanie was brought to be put to the torture and examined; a ring of iron was bound around her temples; it was tightened; her eyes started; her blood-dropping mouth murmured, 'Lord king, I have offended.
Point de conscriptions!" and during the desolating æra of the revolution, their favourite cry presented an exact picture of the character of the nation of the same nation, which, in these dark days of continual horror, could yet amuse, itself by an exhibition of dancing-dogs, under the blood-dropping stage of the guillotine; their cry was then, "Vive la Mort!"
Know, tyrant as thou art, this earthly state Is not eternal, but of transient date; Fear God, then, and afflict not human-kind; To merit Heaven, be thou to Heaven resigned. Afflict not even the Ant; though weak and small, It breathes and lives, and life is sweet to all. Knowing my temper, firm, and stern, and bold, Didst thou not, tyrant, tremble to behold My sword blood-dropping?
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