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Orrida maesta nei fero aspetto / Terrore accresce, e piu superbo il rende; / Rosseggian gli occhi, e di veneno infetto / Come infausta cometa, il guardo splende, / Gil involve il mento, e sull 'irsuto petto / Ispida efoita la gran barbe scende; / E IN GUISA DE VORAGINE PROFONDA / SAPRE LA BOCCA A'ATRO SANGUE IMMONDA. / (Ger. Lib., Cant. iv. 7.) / A horrible majesty in the fierce aspect increases it terror, and / renders it more superb. Red glow the eyes, and the aspect / infected, like a baleful comet, with envenomed influences, / glares around. A vast beard covers the chin -- and, rough and / thick, descends over the shaggy breast. -- And like a profound gulf / expand the jaws, foul with black gore.
Qui suis-je, moi qu'on accuse? Un esclave de la Liberte, un / martyr vivant de la Republique. / -- "Discours de Robespierre, 8 Thermidor. " / (Who am I, -- _I_ whom they accuse? A slave of Liberty, -- a living / martyr for the Republic.)