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Updated: May 8, 2025
Have I ever shown myself one moment unconscious of what I owe you? "Lady S. I do not charge you with it, but this is an affair of importance. You are acquainted with my situation, but not all my weaknesses. I was hurt, in the early part of my life, by the envenom'd tongue of scandal, and ever since, I own, have no joy but in sullying the fame of others.
"Few none find what they love or could have loved, Though accident, blind contact, and the strong Necessity of loving, have removed Antipathies but to recur ere long Envenom'd with irrevocable wrong." And the "blind contact" is the worst of all influences brought to bear upon the mind and heart, the most pernicious, and the most deeply weighted with responsibility.
What tortures I endure no words can tell, Far greater these, than those which erst befell From the dire terror of thy consort, Jove E'en stern Eurystheus' dire command above; This of thy daughter, Oeneus, is the fruit, Beguiling me with her envenom'd suit, Whose close embrace doth on my entrails prey, Consuming life; my lungs forbid to play; The blood forsakes my veins; my manly heart Forgets to beat; enervated, each part Neglects its office, while my fatal doom Proceeds ignobly from the weaver's loom.
The Minerva Medica, Niobe, Apollo, the Faun, the Torso Belvedere, the Apollo Belvedere, and a thousand others; above all, that miracle of ancient art the Laocoon: "A father's love and mortal's agony, With an immortal's patience blending: vain The struggle; vain, against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The old man's clench; the long envenom'd chain Rivets the living links, the enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp."
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