Miscellaneous Pieces of M De Secondat Baron De Montesquieu
Miscellaneous Pieces of M De Secondat Baron De Montesquieu
Charles De Secondat Montesquieu
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There I fiw Jealoufy, whofe alpcd appeared more gloomy than terrible : Palenefs, Melan- choly, and Silence furroundcd lier j and about her ricw Sorrow and Diiquietude. She breath- ed upon us i CnQ placed her hand upon our hearts J (Ivc flrack us upon the head j and our [ 208 ] our fight and imagination could perceive no- thing but monfters. Enter flill farther, unhappy mortals, faid {he J go, find a Goddefs more powerful than I. We obeyed ; and foon favv a frightful Deity, by the light of the i...nflamed tongues of theferpents that hifled about her head. This was Rage. She loofened one of her fcrpents, and threv/ it at me. I ftrove to catch it, and in an inftant it imperceptibly Aid into my heart. I flood for a moment ftupid ; but the poifon had no fooner diifufed itfelf into my veins, than I imagined myfelf in the midfl of hell. My foul was fet on fire. I cculd fcarce contain myfelf; and was in fuch agitations, that I feemed tormented by the whips of the Furies. We abandoned ourfelves to our tranf- ports, and an hundred times encompafled this dreadful cavern : we went from Jealoufy to Rage, and from Rage to Jealoufy.
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