United States or Albania ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The rage soon died: he came to regard this mass of pseudo-literature as protecting the truth from desecration. But the hilarity remained, and flowed into the form of his idea. And the idea the divine, incomparable idea was simply that he should avenge his goddess by satirizing her false interpreters.
They now rode onward, and soon afterwards met a knight who bore before him on his horse another knight, who was unarmed, blindfolded, and bound hand and foot. "What are you about to do with that knight?" asked Morgan. "To drown him in yonder fountain," was the reply. "He has caused my wife to prove false to me, and only his death will avenge my honor."
"Will you return to your duty if I help you in this extremity?" he said. "Ay, do, do!" cried Mother Chattox. "Anything to avenge yourself upon that murtherous hag." "Peace!" cried the familiar, spurning her with his cloven foot. "I do not want vengeance," said Mistress Nutter; "I only want to save my child." "Then you consent on that condition?" said the familiar.
But I bade them remember their good master's word when he wiped his sword after Stamford fight; how he said, when their cry was 'stab and slay, 'Halt, men; God will avenge. I am coming down with the mournfullest burden that ever a poor servant did bear, to bring the great heart that is cold to Kilkhampton vault. Oh, my lady, how shall I ever brook your weeping face?"
He opened the door for his grandmother and followed her out; but as he passed Robinette, he looked at her earnestly, half expecting her applause; for one of the motives in his boyish mind had certainly been to please her to shine in her eyes as the doer of bold deeds and to avenge her nurse's wrongs. And all that he had managed was to make her cry!
All the badly digested humiliations of the past weighed upon him. He had suffered so much contempt and scorn from his fellow-men, that he burned to avenge himself. After a disgraceful youth, he longed to live a respected and honored old age. His past career disturbed him little.
To the man who lives in a natural state away from cities it appears only virile and just to defend himself, to avenge himself, with the weapons which nature and art have given him; he feels no satisfaction in creeping and crawling through labyrinths of the law, and he cannot see why he, the wronged, should be forced to spend, and wait, and humbly pray, while the wrongdoer may go, in the end, unchastised.
Man in his actual state, has two modes of feeling, one that he approves, another that he disapproves: thus, persuaded that these two modes of feeling must accompany him, even beyond his present existence, he placed in the regions of eternity two distinguished abodes, one destined to felicity, the other to misery: the one must contain those who obey the calls of superstition, who believe in its dogmas; the other is a prison, destined to avenge the cause of heaven, on all those who shall not faithfully believe the doctrines promulgated by the ministers of a vast variety of superstitions.
Levy, who had known from Lady Jane of Harley's pursuit of Nora, had learned already how to avenge himself on Egerton. Audley could not apply to the friend he had betrayed. And as to other friends, no man in town had a greater number. And no man in town knew better that he should lose them all if he were once known to be in want of their money.
I do not ask for pardon. After I deliberately had set about to shield this unhappy girl, to cheat the law, if you please, to cheat you, perhaps, I conceived the horrible thought to avenge myself for ALL the indignities I had sustained at the hands of you Wrandalls, and at the same time to even my account with the one woman whom I could put my finger upon as having robbed me of my husband's love.
Word Of The Day