"... Fulsere ignes, et conscius æther."
Virgil, Æn., iv. 167.
6. "In hollow winds he hears a spirit moan."
Pleasures of Hope.
Shakespeare has the hollow whistling of the southern wind.
7. "The strings of Nature crack'd with agony."
Pleasures of Hope.
"His grief grew puissant. and the strings of life
Began to crack."—Shakspeare, King Lear.
8. "The fierce extremes of good and ill to brook."