 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 sider
...in the utmost disorder, bare-headed, without light, &c. Walks disturbedly before he speaks. MYRON. HENCEFORTH let no man trust the first false step Of guilt ; it hangs upon a precipice, Whose steep descent in last perdition ends. How far am I plung'd down beyond all thought Which I this evening... | |
 | Edward Young - 1811 - 294 sider
...in the utmost disorder, bare headed, without light , &c. Walks disturbedly before he speaks. Myron. HENCEFORTH let no man trust the first false step Of guilt ; it hangs upon a precipice, Whose steep descent in last perdition ends. How far am I plung'd down beyond all thought Which I this evening... | |
 | 1840 - 604 sider
...Content to leave it for the civic crown. THE GAMESTERSi A FRENCH STORY. BT THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTOS. " Let no man trust the first false step of guilt, It hangs upon a precipice, Whose steep descent in last perdition endi." •- Such is the fate of guilt, to make slaves tools. And then... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 sider
...an unquiet drooping of the eye, As if its lid were charged with unshed tears. Byron's Dream, GUILT. Let no man trust the first false step Of guilt, it hangs upon a precipice, Whose steep descent in last perdition ends. Young's Busiris. That men should dare to do, What done, must... | |
 | 1824 - 348 sider
...mingle with its kindred earth. Remorse and Despair. HENCEFORTH, let no man trust the first false stop Of guilt. It hangs upon a precipice, Whose deep descent in last perdition ends. How far am I plung'd down, beyond all thought AVhich I this evening fram'd ! Consummate horror ! guilt... | |
 | Marguerite Gardiner (countess of Blessington.) - 1842 - 986 sider
...their first entrance as a wedded pair into fashionable life in London. THE GAMESTERS: A FRENCH STORY. " Let no man trust the first false step of guilt, It hangs upon a precipice, Whose steep descent in last perdition ends." " Such is the fate of guilt, to make slaves tools, And then... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 460 sider
...had known for some time, during his late and severe distresses both of body and mind. CHAPTER LVI. Let no man trust the first false step Of guilt ; it hangs upon a precipice, "Whose steep descent in last perdition ends. YOUNG, B\ order of the court, the red velvet cabinet of Sir John... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 458 sider
...had known for some time, during his late and severe .distresses both of body and mind. CHAPTER LVF. Let no man trust the first false step Of guilt ; it hangs upon a precipice, Whose steep descent in last perdition ends. YOUNG, Bv order of the court, the red velvet cabinet of Sir John... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 sider
...lamentation is the right of the dead ; Excessive grief the enemy of the living. Shakspeare. GUILT. Let no man trust the first false step Of guilt ; it hangs upon a precipice. Whose steep descent in last perdition ends. Young. Better 'twere, That all the miseries which Nature owns,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 sider
...where, for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale? Young. Let no one trust the first false step Of guilt, it hangs upon a precipice, Whose steep descent in last perdition ends. — Young 'Tis guilt alone Like brain-sick phrenzy, in its feverish... | |
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Let no man trust the first false step Of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, Whose steep descent in last perdition ends. 
