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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 ."

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

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