He waits till the hard heart relents; Our self-damnation he laments; He sweetly them invites To share in heaven's delights; His arms he opens to receive All who for past transgressions grieve.

Dr. Johnson relents.

" He knelt to her; she would not relent.

My piercing plaints along the desert plains; And woods and groves do echo forth my woes: The earth below relents in crystal tears, When heav'ns above, by some malignant course Of fatal stars, are authors of my grief.

My queen, for your favor I sue; If your heart through my pleading relents, To your feelings pray send me one clue The fan that cost $0.63.

The two men promptly fight, but are interrupted by Theseus, who at first condemns them to death, but later relents and directs them to depart and to return at the end of a year, each with a hundred brave knights.

His heart relents; but his hand is firm.

At first Wagstaff gave orders that these three should be immediately hanged; for they were traitors acting under the authority of the usurper; then, pretending to relent, he discharged the judges on their parole, but detained the sheriff a prisoners because he had refused to proclaim Charles Stuart.

The Romans were too faithful to the ideal of grandeur in themselves not to relent, after a generation or two, before the grandeur of Hannibal.

But if, unhappily for himself, won by this docility, he relents too amiably into reasons and arguments, probably one raises an insurrection against him that may never be crushed; for in the fields of logic one can skirmish, perhaps, as well as he.

Relent, father!

Ichtharion: He often relents at sunset; he looks out over the orchids in the evening.

THE HEART OF STONE RELENTS.

Nature never relents, and there is no God who can so forgive us our sins as to remove their legitimate effects; but man can comfort us with his love, and humanity can teach us to overcome retribution by righteous conduct.

she declares that None shall sink to everlasting woe Who have not well deserved the wrath of Heaven, she presently relents, and tacks on a poem in a lighter measure, expressing her hope That soon the wicked shall at last Be fitted for the skies; And when their dreadful doom is past To light and life arise.

(Perceives the speechless agony in his expression, and relents.)

It is the heart which easily relents; which feels for every thing that is human, and is backward and slow to inflict the least wound.

Krishna relents, spares the snake's life but banishes it to a distant island.

Then he relents.

At last, Krishna relents.

Hell itself relents, and, as Boccaccio had written, forse lieta gli rendeo La cercata Euridice a condizione the condition being that he shall not turn to behold her before attaining once again to the land of the living.

His vow is overheard by Dafne, who, seeing that her love for Iacinto may no more avail, at last relents.

While, however, they are yet in the first transport of joy, a troop of satyrs appear, and carry off the girls by force, leaving the lovers to a despair rendered all the more bitter for Philaritus by the announcement that his father relents of his anger, and is willing to countenance his marriage with Arismena.

He relents, allows Algy and Barbara to have the carriage, and sends them off to Tempest.

Now she relents; but all too late to move A heart directed to a nobler love.