Those eyes of horror were gnawing into his heart.

I looked down upon their senate; the grim Phantom sat cowering on its floor.
It hath taken up its abode in the city of Dread.

And what in truth are these would-be builders of a new world?
Like the students who have vainly struggled after our supreme science, they have attempted what is beyond their power; they have passed from this solid earth of usages and forms into the land of shadow, and its loathsome keeper has seized them as its prey.

I looked into the tyrant's shuddering soul, as it trembled past me.

There, amidst the ruins of a thousand systems which aimed at virtue, sat Crime, and shivered at its desolation.