...hell as hot as any hell could be. Said he, " I know full well what Byron meant when he wrote : — " ' The mind that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the scorpion girt by fire, In circling nature as it glows The flames around their captive close, Till inly scorched by thousand throes,...

...into its head or body, and instantly die. Byron refers to these insect Catos in the following lines : "The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the...The flames around their captive close, 'Till, inly scorch'd by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows : The sting...

...their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. REMORSE. [The Giaour.] THE mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the...maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures...

...into its head or body, and instantly die. Byron refers to these insect Catos in the following lines: " The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the...The flames around their captive close, 'Till, inly scorch'd by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows: The sting...

...entirety fit for recital in the pulpit, it would have heen quoted, because exceedingly direct : — " The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly search'd by thousand throes, And maddening in her ire, One sad and sole relief she knows, The sting...

...self-condemned He deals on his own soul. ConSciencr. — Byron. THE Mind, that broods o'er guilty woess Is like the scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing...glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly search' d by thousand throia, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate...

...failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame. * * " » * * The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...Scorpion girt by fire ; In circle narrowing as it glows,*5 The flames around their captive close, Till inly search'd by thousand throes, And maddening...

...their own, And every woe a tear can claim, Except an erring sister's shame. RE3fORSE. [ The Giaoii r. ] THE mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like the Scorpion girt hy lire, In circle narrowing as it glows, The flames arnuna their captive close. Till inly searched...

...death, afraid of everybody and everything. It is, in fact, an anticipation of the bitterness of hell. " The mind that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the...searched by thousand throes And maddening in her ire, One and sole relief she knows ; The sting she nourished for her foes, was vain, rate norse r'ven, it death!"...

...disposition, as his was, \ve must have met with some expression of it in his letters or poems, for ' The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the Scorpion girt by fire.' Yet, perhaps, one of the most significant points to be observed in BranwelPs writings, and in studying...