At this dread moment when the foe My life with rage insatiate seeks, In vain I strive to ward the blow, My buckler falls, my sabre breaks.

But mine will no addition more receive, Fate has bestow'd the worst she had to give; Your mighty Soul can all its rage oppose, Whilst mine must perish by more feeble blows.

'High Heaven itself our impious rage assails.' (P.) 187.

When the snake wanted to come out and found the way blocked, it got angry and in its rage bit the elephant and the elephant died then and there.

whose rage buries as low that store, As avarice had digg'd for it before; 70 What earth, in her dark bowels, could not keep From greedy hands, lies safer in the deep, Where Thetis kindly does from mortals hide Those seeds of luxury, debate, and pride.

Swollen with rage burst in the bale-bringer; Flamed in his eyes a fierce light, likest fire.

Yet here within appointed lines How small a grate his rage confines!

117. 'Let rules be fix'd that may our rage contain, And punish faults with a proportion'd pain, And do not flay him who deserves alone A whipping for the fault that he hath done.

Till the last streaks of dying day withdrew, And doubtful moonlight did our rage deceive. 69 In the English fleet each ship resounds with joy, And loud applause of their great leader's fame: In fiery dreams the Dutch they still destroy, And, slumbering, smile at the imagined flame.

" In haste he arms, and mounts his bounding steed, The growing rage demands redoubled speed; The leopard's skin he o'er his shoulders throws, The regal girdle round his middle glows.

And blood is quick, and quick the brain; Shall North and South their rage deplore, And reunited thrive amain Like Yorkist and Lancastrian?

There he becomes brutalised; there he spends his all; and if he awakes to the wretched state of his own family at last, instead of remembering that it is his own act, he turns round, accuses the farmer of starvation wages, shouts for what is really Communism, and perhaps even in his sullen rage descends to crime.

In furious rage descending from bold Ubeda's steep, He crossed the vale and mounted to Baza's castle keep.

In rage disconsolate, He rode from Gelva, nor drew rein Up to Sanlucar's gate.

My rage dissolves. Isa.

If I were late or absence detained me from thy sight, Then jealous rage distraught thy heart, thine eyes with tears were bright.

Ye're movedI see A noble rage flash from your eyes, ye warriors!

300 "Live, tender spirit, soft Aciloe, live, "And all the wrongs of mad'ning rage forgive.

The Massacres to which the Church of Rome has animated the ordinary People, are dreadful Instances of the Truth of this Observation; and whoever reads the History of the Irish Rebellion, and the Cruelties which ensued thereupon, will be sufficiently convinced to what Rage poor Ignorants may be worked up by those who profess Holiness, and become Incendiaries, and under the Dispensation of Grace, promote Evils abhorrent to Nature.

And Bruce, as soon as he had slain The Gordon, sailed away to Spain; And fought with rage incessant Against the Moorish crescent.

Death stretches o'er the plain 50 Wide-wasting, and grim slaughter red with blood: Urged on by hunger keen, they wound, they kill, Their rage licentious knows no bound; at last Incumbered with their spoils, joyful they bear Upon their shoulders broad, the bleeding prey.

The tide restrain'd her course, and more amazed, 610 The twin-stars on the royal brothers gazed: While this sole fear Does trouble to our suffering hero bring, Lest next the popular rage oppress the king!

No, I must your rage prevent From doing what your reason would repent; Like the vast seas, your mind no limits knows, Like them, lies open to each wind that blows.

This idea is beautifully illustrated by Garth in his Dispensatory, in the following lines: "Thus paler looks impetuous rage proclaim, And chilly virgins redden into flame.

when pleasure's rage Hath conquer'd reason, we must treat with age.