Cease we to wonder at Gods wondrous works, And let us labour for to bring to light Those masked fiends that thus dishonor him.

Science has taught men to admire where they used to dread; to rule where they used to obey; to employ for harmless uses what they were once afraid to touch; and, where they once saw only fiends, to see the orderly and beneficent laws of the all-good and almighty God.

Perhaps in slumber we may forget these howling fiends.

"Oh, let me now my sins recount, And grant at last Into thy presence I may mount, And thou, dear mother, think not of my past. "Let not the fiend with fears affright

What stops the Fiend in Spenser from tearing Guyon to piecesor who had made it a condition of his prey, that Guyon must take assay of the glorious baitwe have no guess.

The holy man sat doggedly at the entrance of his cavern, with an expression of fathomless stupidity, which seemed to defy all the fiends of the Thebaid to get an idea into his head, or make him vary his attitude by a single inch.

I'm curst each moment I delay thy fate: Haste to the shades, and tell, the happy Pallas, Ismena's flames, and let him taste such joys As thou giv'st me; go tell applauding Minos, The pious love you bore his daughter Phaedra; Tell it the chatt'ring ghosts, and hissing furies, Tell it the grinning fiends, till Hell found nothing To thy pleas'd ears, but

" "Is a fellow who has turned opium fiend worth saving to the class!" demanded Dave, looking straight into Hallam's eyes.

A horde of hideous thoughts, the very spawn of hell, swarmed like vermin in my mind; there was the breath as of a host of contending fiends upon my face; a hundred hungry hands seemed to lay hold on me, and to strive to drag me down and down to a bottomless pit that opened at my very feet, and into which I felt myself slipping.

Three years before I was engaged in the same manner, and had created a fiend whose barbarity had desolated my heart.

The poor wretch rolled his eyes in inexpressible agony, groaned, and soon after expired; thus depriving these human fiends of the satisfaction his prolonged torments would have afforded them.

Isis embraceth thee in peace, and she driveth away the fiends from the mouth of thy paths.

"As sails, full spread, and bellying with the wind, Drop, suddenly collapsed, if the mast split; So to the ground down dropped the cruel fiend"; and earthward have the unsaintly saints of God as swiftly sped, when they have fostered the pride which changed angels into demons.

They scarcely spoke as they went along, grimly enduring the sand-fiend that stung and blinded but could not bar their progress.

Fool that I was, to entertain Such imps, such fiends, a hellish train! Had ye been never housed and nursed, I, for a witch had ne'er been cursed.

But now, in this Valley of Humiliation, poor Christian was hard put to it; for he had gone but a little way before he espied a foul fiend coming over the field to meet him: his name is Apollyon.

Want of water overtakes the traveller sometimes in the most annoying manner, and it is well to know how to fight off the dry fiend.

Wild flapped each fiend a batlike hood Against that 'frighting light, and stood Beating the windless rain, and then Rose heavy and slow with cowering head, Circled in company again, And into darkness fled.

At last The cock he crew, away then flew the fiend who had enslaved me through the awful watches of the night; and, harassed and nervous, I rose to the duties of the day.

[Footnote 171: 'Fiends:' the malcontents who doubted the truth of the birth are here compared to the evil spirits that tempted our Saviour in the wilderness.]

Still thank yourselves, you cry; your noble race 750 We banish not, but they forsake the place; Our doors are open: true, but ere they come, You toss your 'censing Test, and fume the room; As if 'twere Toby's rival to expel, And fright the fiend who could not bear the smell.

"Hell's got that fiend, if there's a hell for human fiends.

Come now, dear friend, in what way can we take back the life we gave this lovely fiend?"

Lucifer went forth from her presence a love-sick fiend.

Too long I've guessed at some dread mystery I may not hear: and in my restless dreams, Night after night, sweeps by a frantic rout Of grinning fiends, fierce horses, bodiless hands, Which clutch at one to whom my spirit yearns As to a mother.