This different treatment shows the feeling of the poet - the feeling for which he seeks to evoke our inmost sympathy - to oscillate between the belief that an awful crime brings with it its awful punishment (and it is sickening to observe how the argument by which the Friar persuades Annabella to forsake her evil courses mainly appeals to the physical terrors of retribution), and the notion that there is something fatal, something irresistible, and therefore in a sense self-justified, in so dominant a passion. [Please select]
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Almost thee persuades me to be a Quaker now," she added." [Please select]
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"I don't care what he thinks or says of me, unless he persuades others to think ill of me." [Please select]
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He instructs while he sports, persuades men to virtue by means of beasts, and exalts trifling subjects to the sublime. [Please select]
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She now ceases to speak ill of people, and persuades others to cease from all detractions, so that absent people are safe. [Please select]
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Harry Jardine is continually looking after you, whatever his mother persuades herself. [Please select]
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This argument was a very weak one, but a man easily persuades himself of what he wants to do. [Please select]
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When I am with her, almost she persuades me to think ill of honest hatred, and to pine no longer that it was not I that had the killing of Ewin Mackinnon. [Please select]
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She's a dear old thing, though, and as good as gold; and I shall consider your second cousin a lucky man if he persuades her. [Please select]
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