As in most of these couplets, it is the guilty one who excites the interest: "The Christian oppresses.

" "I thank you, my childrenwhat a word, and what a novel sensation is this, for me, Ned!I feel all your kindness, but if you would consult my peace of mind, and wish me to regain my self-respect, you will allow me to disburthen my soul of the weight that oppresses it.

"He wishes to secure within his grasp That region of enchantment, Hindústán, And then obtain relief from what he feels; For night and day the terror of thy name Oppresses him, his heart is all on fire, And life is torture to him.

He finds, that the conversation of his most intimate friends fatigues and oppresses him; and it is happy that he does not need it, for he is quite free from anxiety, impatience, or low spirits, and passes his time very well with the assistance of amusing books.

F. Harvard Lampoon. ~On the Weather.~ The sultry stillness of a summer's day Oppresses every sense.

If one, by suffering his heart to become hardened, oppresses a fellow-creature, the tear of sympathy starts up in the eye of another, and the latter instantly feels a desire, involuntarily generated, of flying to his relief.

Our own ignorance oppresses us so much that we feel tempted to say that we cannot attempt it.

The house oppresses me more than ever to-night.

The dome rests on four immense pillars, the bulk of which quite oppresses the light galleries running around the walls.

Deception in this, as well as in every thing else, is the order of the day; and the Indian Alcalde now oppresses the villagers as much as he himself has ever been.

Whatever rejoices or pains, oppresses or occupies us, is poured forth from the heart.

When the people rise in their might to say to tyranny in whatsoever form it oppresses them, 'Thus far and no farther shalt thou go,' the night is far spent and the light is breaking in the east.

A new theory, like a new pair of breeches, ("The Atlantic" still affects the older type of nether garment,) is sure to have hard-fitting places; or even when no particular fault can be found with the article, it oppresses with a sense of general discomfort.

It fastens on society an army of police to be supported, and it oppresses the land with taxes.

I feel somewhat relieved; but it has been a terrible day, and nothing oppresses me so much as dark, rainy weather.

At the same time "solitude oppresses me to an excess".

But it's this very silence that oppresses me.

Others found some consolation in the death which awaited us, because we should no longer have to groan under the shameful yoke which oppresses the country.

Every thing is sacrificed to the army and Paris, and the people are robbed of their subsistence to supply an iniquitous metropolis, and a military force that awes and oppresses them.

If the Gran Capitan were now minister of war, he would probably be unable even with this military tax which oppresses the country to put his regiments in condition to undertake a fresh war in Italy.

If confederacies were easyuseless;many oppresses many.

The fate which oppresses us is the sluggishness of our spirit.

I doubt he is not free yet from his complaint, as the humour fallen on his breast still oppresses him.

No panic has seized you, and still oppresses you, because of the narrow dimensions in which you have to seat yourself for the next three hours.

Out of the spirit blossom spirits, Bettine tells us, and we subject ourselves to their power: "Ah, wonderful mediation of the ineffable, which oppresses the bosom!