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II. i.19 (25,6) Remorse from power] [_Remorse_, for mercy.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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"The strange, fang'd monster that they call Remorse
Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems Isabella Valancy Crawford 1868
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But by this time they had come to a long and steep hill called Remorse up which all pilgrims walked.
Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory
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Remorse, which is not the same thing as repentance, serves no purpose that I have ever been able to discover.
Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women Arnold Bennett 1899
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This doubtless was only the fancy of an invalid: but what of that undying serpent called Remorse, which coils itself about the heart of the murderer and holds it for ever in a deadly grip -- never to beat freely again, never to know a painless throb, or feel a sweet emotion?
Henry Dunbar A Novel 1875
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Adam Roberts: "Remorse" (disLocations Anthology, 2007)
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I know "Remorse" aired once and probably a few times after that.
Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997
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Coleridge also in 1797 wrote the "Remorse," or rather the play he first called Osorio, the name of the principal character in it, but finding afterwards that there was a respectable family of that name residing in
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman
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The "Remorse" and "Zapolya" strikingly illustrate the predominance of the meditative, pausing habit of Mr. Coleridge's mind.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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He then published the tragedy of "Remorse," which dragged out a miserable existence of twenty nights, on the boards of Drury-Lane, and then expired for ever, like the oil of the orchestral lamps.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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