 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...not ! the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall. O ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night ! Scorn ? Would the angels laugh to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - History - 1883 - 236 pages
...not, the tempter hath A snare for all ! And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall. " OI dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night. » » * # » " Of all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains, — A fallen angel's pride of... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1884 - 452 pages
...They are burned into the memory of the admirers of Webster as he stood in his early days : — " O, dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. " All else is gone ; from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies,... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1884 - 392 pages
...not! the Tempter hath A snare for all; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall. O ! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age Scorn ? Would the angels laugh to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark From... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - Poetics - 1885 - 280 pages
...his intense feeling, the poet uses the vivid trope rather than the literal symbol of thought: — " O dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have...lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night." That is, it is best to endure in silence the sorrow and shame that one feels when a great man betrays... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - Political science - 1888 - 74 pages
...not, — the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall! "Oh! dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. " Of all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains, — A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...not,—the Tempter hath A snare for all; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall! O, dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night, Scorn! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...not, — the Tempter hath A snare for all; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall! O, dumb be passion's stormy rage, When he who might Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night Scorn! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 414 pages
...him not, the Tempter hath A snare for all ; And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath, Befit his fall! Oh, dumb be passion's stormy rage, . When he who might...Have lighted up and led his age, Falls back in night. Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark,... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 656 pages
...announced, a wave of disappointment swept over the State, like that which a nation feels, when one who " Might have lighted up and led his age Falls back in night." The prisoners were afterwards released upon a Habeas Corpus issued by Judge Brooks of the United States... | |
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Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope and heaven! Let not the land once proud of him Insult him now, Nor brand with deeper shame his dim, Dishonored brow. 
