This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...that passeth all understanding is lost to her for ever, and the worm that never dies already gnaws her heart. 'Nought's had--all's spent, Where our desire is had without content. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy, Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.' "Under the impression of her present wretchedness, I, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...that passeth all understanding is lost to her for ever, and the worm that never dies already gnaws her heart. 'Nought's had--all's spent, Where our desire is had without content. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy, Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.' "Under the impression of her present wretchedness, I, from this moment, have always assumed the dejection of countenance and manners which I thought accordant to such a state of mind; and, though the author of this sublime composition has not, it must be acknowledged, given any direction whatever to authorize this assumption, yet I venture to hope that he would not have disapproved of it. It is evident, indeed, by her conduct in the scene which succeeds the mournful soliloquy, that she is no longer the presumptuous, the determined creature that she was before the assassination of the king: for instance, on the approach of her husband, we behold for the first time striking indications of sensibility, nay, tenderness and sympathy; and I think this conduct is nobly followed up by her during the whole of their subsequent eventful intercourse. It is evident, I think, that the sad and new experience of affliction has subdued the insolence of her pride and the violence of her will; for she come now to seek him out, that she may at least participate his misery. She knows, by her own woful experience, the torment which he undergoes, and endeavours to alleviate his sufferings by the following inefficient reasonings: 'How now, my lord--why do you keep alone? Of sorriest fancies your companions making? Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on. Things without all remedy Should be without regard. What's done, is done.' "Far from her former habits of reproach and contemp...
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