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S E N T I M E N T S. Ch. XVI.
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pitch , and being at find too big sor utterance, musf,
for Come moments, be expressed by violent ge-
shires only : as sooh as there is vent for words ,
the first expressions are broken and interrupted :
at leas! we ought to expect a tide of intermingled
sentiments , occasioned by the ssudluation of the
mind between the two passions. /Emilia is made
to behave in a very different manner: with ex-
treme coolness sire describes her own situation, as
if sile were merely a spedsator ; or rather the poet
takes the talk off her h.nds : >
Etie me rens , Seigneur, a ces hautes bontes :
je recouvre la vue aupres de kurs claries.
Je connois mon forfait qui me sembloit j ustice ;
Et ce que n’avoit pu la terreur du supplice ,
Je sens naitre enmoname un repentir puissant,
Et mon cceur en secret me dit , qu’il y consent.
Le ciel a resolu votre grandeur supreme ;
Et pour preuve, Seigneur, je n’en veux qua moi meme.
J'ose avcc vaniteme dormer cet eclat,
Puisqu’il change mom cceur, qu’il vent changer 1’eta.
Ma haine va mourir , que j’ai erne immortelle ;
Elie est morte , 8c ce cceurdevient sujet fidelle ;
Et prenant desormais cette haine en horreur ,
L’ardeur de vous lervir succede a sa fureur.
Ad 5. '/r. 3.
In the tragedy of Sertorius, the Queen , surprised
with the news that her lover was assassinated , in-
stead of venting any passion, degenerates into a
cool
96
pitch , and being at find too big sor utterance, musf,
for Come moments, be expressed by violent ge-
shires only : as sooh as there is vent for words ,
the first expressions are broken and interrupted :
at leas! we ought to expect a tide of intermingled
sentiments , occasioned by the ssudluation of the
mind between the two passions. /Emilia is made
to behave in a very different manner: with ex-
treme coolness sire describes her own situation, as
if sile were merely a spedsator ; or rather the poet
takes the talk off her h.nds : >
Etie me rens , Seigneur, a ces hautes bontes :
je recouvre la vue aupres de kurs claries.
Je connois mon forfait qui me sembloit j ustice ;
Et ce que n’avoit pu la terreur du supplice ,
Je sens naitre enmoname un repentir puissant,
Et mon cceur en secret me dit , qu’il y consent.
Le ciel a resolu votre grandeur supreme ;
Et pour preuve, Seigneur, je n’en veux qua moi meme.
J'ose avcc vaniteme dormer cet eclat,
Puisqu’il change mom cceur, qu’il vent changer 1’eta.
Ma haine va mourir , que j’ai erne immortelle ;
Elie est morte , 8c ce cceurdevient sujet fidelle ;
Et prenant desormais cette haine en horreur ,
L’ardeur de vous lervir succede a sa fureur.
Ad 5. '/r. 3.
In the tragedy of Sertorius, the Queen , surprised
with the news that her lover was assassinated , in-
stead of venting any passion, degenerates into a
cool