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Chap. V.

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"appear merciful and compassionate, and "not rather a monster of cruelty and inhumanity? To me that man would "appear to be of a flinty cruel nature, "who should not endeavour to soothe "his own anguish and torment by the "anguish and torment of its guilty "cause^[1]."

Ovid, in describing the fatal storm in which Ceyx perished, says:

Undarum incursu gravis unda, tonitrubus æther
Fluctibus erigitur, cœlumque æquare videtur
Pontus.———

An hyperbole, allowable in poetical description; but which Dryden has exag-

↑ The Orations of M. T. Cicero translated into English, with notes historical and critical. Dublin, 1766.

gerated

[1] The Orations of M. T. Cicero translated into English, with notes historical and critical. Dublin, 1766.

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