"If he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait that he die; "Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the Revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
"The Emancipation of Massachusetts"
Brooks Adams
"But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him anything without laying of wait, "Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm: "Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the Revenger of blood according to these judgments: "And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the Revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled."
"The Emancipation of Massachusetts"
Brooks Adams
There are gleams in "The Atheist's Tragedy" of that clear light in which the whole Shakespearean world lay shining, and here and there the bright flames of the stars do still endure to lighten the gloom of it by flashes or by fits; the gentle and noble young lovers, whose patient loyalty is at last rescued from the toils of crime to be crowned with happiness and honor, are painted, though rapidly and slightly, with equal firmness of hand and tenderness of touch; and there is some vigorous and lively humor in the lighter action of the comic scenes, however coarse and crude in handling: but there is no such relief to the terrors of the maturer work, whose sultrier darkness is visible only by the fire kindled of itself, very dreadful, which burns in the heart of the Revenger whom it lights along his blood-stained way.
"The Age of Shakespeare"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
