It allthe whole bizarre scenevanished from their ken, as though it had been one of those alluring, thwarting dreams which afflict men in sleep.

If e'er from me thy loved memorial part, May shame afflict this alienated heart; Of thee forgetful if I form a song, My lyre be broken, and untuned my tongue, My griefs be doubled from thy image free, And mirth a torment, unchastised by thee!

FIRDUSI'S SATIRE ON MAHMUD Know, tyrant as thou art, this earthly state Is not eternal, but of transient date; Fear God, then, and afflict not human-kind; To merit Heaven, be thou to Heaven resigned.

Afflict not even the Ant; though weak and small, It breathes and lives, and life is sweet to all.

Moreover, I desire to afflict Monsieur Martin with my confidences.

I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding.

My question seemed to afflict him with puzzled surprise;he half smiled, as if not quite sure but I might be jesting.

" "Rio!Here is more salvage, galmore salvage coming to afflict me!"

Even while writing to Madame de Polignac that she is "bathed in tears of grief and despair," and that she can "hope for nothing good when perverseness is so busy in seeking means to chill her very soul," she yet adds that "she shall triumph over her enemies by doing more good than ever, and that it will be easier for them to afflict her than to drive her to avenging herself on them."

It ought to afflict every sovereign in the universe, and still more an affectionate relation like you.

For if I die and find that she, My woman-glory, lives in common air, Is not so very radiant after all, My sad face will afflict the calm-eyed ghosts, Not used to see such rooted sadness there, At least in fields where I may hope to walk And find good company.

Calme was the day, and through the trembling ayre Sweete-breathing Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay* Hot Titans beames, which then did glyster fayre; When I (whom sullein care, Through discontent of my long fruitlesse stay In princes court, and expectation vayne Of idle hopes, which still doe fly away Like empty shadows, did afflict my brayne,)

But if thou be indeede, as men thee call, 155 The worlds great parent, the most kind preserver Of living wights, the soveraine lord of all, How falles it then that with thy furious fervour Thou doest afflict as well the not-deserver, As him that doeth thy lovely heasts despize, 160 And on thy subiects most doth tyrannize?

Discontents and grievances are either general or particular; general are wars, plagues, dearths, famine, fires, inundations, unseasonable weather, epidemical diseases which afflict whole kingdoms, territories, cities; or peculiar to private men, as cares, crosses, losses, death of friends, poverty, want, sickness, orbities, injuries, abuses, &c. Generally all discontent, homines quatimur fortunae, salo.

Ide rather loose mine eye, my hand, my foote, Be blinde, wante senses, and be ever lame, Then be tormented with such discontent This resignation would afflict me with.

And all the plagues that damned furies feele For their forepassed bold iniquities, Afflict you both for thus preventing me!

Numnes and feare, hungar and sollitude, Besydes my casket, my Scribonia's losse, All these at once afflict mee.

It is reason that engenders self-love, and reflection that strengthens it; it is reason that makes man shrink into himself; it is reason that makes him keep aloof from everything that can trouble or afflict him: it is philosophy that destroys his connections with other men; it is in consequence of her dictates that he mutters to himself at the sight of another in distress, You may perish for aught I care, nothing can hurt me.

I will not ask by what wonderful power you continue to torment his life; I will not even doubt that you pity while you afflict him; but I ask you to reflect whether the selfishness of your sorrow may not have hardened your heart, and blinded you to that consolation which God offers to those who humbly seek it.

I believe this ingenuous feeling to be very far removed from the wheezy aspirations of windy ignorance, or the spasms for fame which afflict with colic the bowels, empty and flatulent, of sheer scribblers and dunces who take a mean advantage of the invention of printing.

let it not afflict you, that your power Is circumscribed.

But when thou considerest the wounds in thy own circle of relations, or dost cast a glance at the public disorders in the State, which again afflict the individual also (as Solon says: "The general corruption penetrates even to thy quiet habitation"), then think, first, of thy own and others' sins, and of the righteous wrath of God; and, secondly, weigh the rage of the devil, who lets loose his hate chiefly in the Church.

Afflict not one to this dear haven fled, My private earthly paradisemy BED.

In the month of May, three-fourths of the brood (being now upwards of two years old, and seven inches long) assumed the fine clear silvery lustre which characterises the migratory condition, being thus converted into smolts, closely resembling those of salmon in their general aspect, although easily to be distinguished by the orange tips of the pectoral fins, and other characters with which we shall not here afflict our readers.

I shall expect you to act with fortitude and calmness, and not, by weakness and self-indulgence, to increase the pain that will afflict the parent's heartfor it will be sufficient for Fairman to know only what has happened to give up every hope and consolation.

I am pleased they did not know that we had some people mad enough to wish to inflict similar wounds upon our own country.

His late opponents had decided to take advantage of Carthy's absence, and inflict chastisement prompt and merciless upon the "youthful stranger.

It was an antiquated system which sought to inflict punishment for every mortal thingit was the lex talionis of the Old Testament, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Her eyes were opened now in her new-found happiness, and she foresaw the crushing blow that happiness must inflict on the oldest, kindest, dearest of friends.

We think very lightly of these little social outrages in the battle of life, and yet I doubt if one human being can inflict a much deeper injury on another than that which deprives the victim of all power of enjoyment, all belief in good, all hope for the future, all tender memories of the past.

In this book, compiled of articles thrown off upon the spur of the moment, with so much to amuse, to awaken, to suggest, and to inspire, there is hardly a sentence which can arouse antagonism or inflict pain.

One excessively blunt, and calculated to bruise and crush the tissues, will inflict a more serious wound than one of equal length that is pointed and sharp.

It must be said for her that she did not go out of her way to inflict these concussions upon the brains of spectators, since she always had in her closet one evening dress and one street dress, sufficiently approximating the prevailing style to pass unnoticed.

It may be as well to mention that the sharp-pointed leaves have been known to inflict serious injury.

Soon after quitting the house, he joined me in my way home, and I spoke to him again about enlisting, but his blood was still hothe would abide no reasonhe could only swear of the revenge he would inflict upon Winlaw.

And should we find any, our orders were to inflict punishment by whipping the slave until he informed who gave them to him, or how they came by them.

Yet, such is the hardening nature of such scenes, that from this kind of commiseration for the suffering slave, I became so blunted that I could not only witness their stripes with composure, but myself inflict them, and that without remorse.

This physician said, he went every day to attend to it himself, in order that he might use those restoratives, which would inflict the greatest possible pain.

they can never believe that slaveholders inflict cruelties upon their slaves!

The evils to which the slave is always exposed, often take place in their very worst degree and form; and where all of them do not take place, still the slave is deprived of his natural rights, degraded as a human being, and exposed to the danger of passing into the hands of a master who may inflict upon him all the hardship and injuries which inhumanity and avarice may suggest."

He must inflict, either personally or by deputy, the sentence of the court, whether it be fine, imprisonment, or death.

He began: "It has been the principle of my life, never to inflict a wilful injury upon any thing that lives; I need not express my regret, when I find myself obliged to be the promulgator of a criminal charge.

Having parted from my travelling companion at New Orleans, one of my first endeavours was, by the aid of physiognomy, to discover some passenger on whom it might suit me to inflict my society.

I shall, therefore, only inflict a few short observations to refresh his memory.

But if we kill them, others, who have no experience, will be set to slaughter us, and will by their bungling inflict great sufferings upon us.

A State which disregarded the differently conceived notions of neighbouring countries, and wished to make the idea of universal peace the guiding rule for its policy, would only inflict a fatal injury on itself, and become the prey of more resolute and warlike neighbours.

In deciding for war or peace, the next important consideration is whether the question under discussion is sufficiently vital for the power of the State to justify the determination to fight; whether the inevitable dangers and miseries of a war do not threaten to inflict greater injury on the interests of the State than the disadvantages which, according to human calculation, must result if war is not declared.

I am sure that you will not take any step calculated to inflict pain on meat least an act of selfishness on your part would be a new and shocking experience for me.

You have no right to inflict me on him.

I will inflict as hard a death upon you as upon the others; yea, there is no living thing I have in the world which I will spare, if I be not obeyed."