| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 páginas
...considered as a truism rather than a pandox. Every boy has written on the thesis " Odissi qutm ¡¡eseris." Scarcely any lines in English Poetry are better known...that vigorous couplet, " Forgiveness to the injured docs belong ; But ihey »e'er pardon u ho have done ill« wrong." The historians and philosophers have... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 páginas
...on the quoter's part of their origin, and many more are quotable. Everybody, for instance, knows the vigorous couplet : — Forgiveness to the injured...belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong ; but everybody does not know the preceding couplet, which is perhaps better still : — A blush remains... | |
| Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 páginas
...who would search for pearls must dive below. AU for Love. Men are but children of a larger growth. Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. The Conquest of Granada CONTEMPOKANEOUS WBITERS. POET. Samuel Butler (1612-1680). — A famous burlesque-writer... | |
| Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 páginas
...what, we know not where." " The secret pleasure of the generous act Is the great mind's great bribe." " Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong." Or such poetical touches as we find in the blank verse : " I feel death rising higher still and higher... | |
| Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 páginas
...Fletcher. A merely fallen enemy may rise again, bnt the reconciled one is truly vanquished. (Schiller. Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. (Dryden. Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? Draw near them then in being merciful Sweet mercy... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. The Conquest of Granada. Part i. Act I. Sc. I. Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.1 Part ii. Act i. Sc. 2. What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue,... | |
| Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 694 páginas
...hate those whom we have injured. Dryden (" The Conquest of Granada," Part H. act i. sc. 2) says:— "Forgiveness, to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong." Herbert (" Jacula Prudentum ") says:— " The offender never pardons." And he, though carried off in... | |
| e. m. abdy-williams - 1884 - 272 páginas
...mother a prey to such perplexity and chagrin as she had not known for years. CHAPTER XVII. OVERHEARD. "Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong." DRYDEN. THE two betrothed couples had not seen much of each other during their ride. To begin with,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 páginas
...considered as a truism rather than a paradox. Every boy has written on the thesis " Ottisse quem Icfseris." wild and horrible apprehensions. Appalled by the...who approached him, dreading to be left alone, he ahandoned it, like other maxims which have lost their gloss, to had novelists, by whom it will very... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 442 páginas
...when the worst is past." " A blush remains on a forgiven face, It wears the silent tokens of disgrace. Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong." When first acted the principal characters were supported by Kynaston (Boabdelin), Lydall (Abdalla),... | |
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