In pity's channel."—"Royal Villain."
One drowns himself:
"Pity like a torrent pours me down,
Now I am drowning all within a deluge."—"Anna Bullen."
Cyrus drowns the whole world:
"Our swelling grief
Shall melt into a deluge, and the world
Shall drown in tears."—"Cyrus the Great."
[79] An expression vastly beneath the dignity of tragedy, says Mr. D—s, yet we find the word he cavils at in the mouth of Mithridates less properly used, and applied to a more terrible idea:
"I would be drunk with death."—"Mithridates."