There were poetsByron and Shelley, the Brownings, Swinburne and Meredithwho were filled with a passionate devotion to the Italian cause.

From the Abbey of Cluny originated that quaint mediaeval idea of the "truce of God," by which nobles were very widely persuaded to restrict their private wars to the middle of the week, and reserve at least Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as days of brotherly love and religious devotion.

The Continental Socialists complain that their cause has hitherto made little progress in Alsace-Lorraine and Poland for the simple reason that political circumstances have over-accentuated the patriotic devotion in both these regions.

"The purest disinterestedness, the noblest integrity, the most unselfish devotion, were the distinction of my friend.

In almost identical words each one speaks of his strong faith, his strict veracity, and his intense devotion to duty.

No woman could help being really pleased at such whole-hearted devotion and such Bluebeard-like viewsespecially when they were not going to be carried out.

With respect to the king, his first resource was in the sale of his plate and jewels, his next in the generous devotion of his adherents, many of whom served him during the whole war at their own cost, and, rather than become a burthen to their sovereign, mortgaged their last acre, and left themselves and their families without the means of future subsistence.

My inward heat more kindled is; And while this flesh her breath expires, My spirit shall suck celestial fires By deep-fetched sighs and pure devotion.

Chivalrously as she loved the lost soldier, she loved her father with that old-fashioned veneration which made her see all that he did with the moral indistinctness, without which there could not be the perfect filial devotion that makes the family a union in good report and evil.

She no more affected to imitate Eveena's absolute devotion than she ventured on Eunané's reckless petulance.

It will be a relief to the reader, after spending so much time in this unwholesome atmosphere, to turn for a moment in the last place to a record, unique and entirely credible, of a truly good and wholesome woman, and of a long period of uninterrupted conjugal devotion.

The encounters were sharp and prolonged, and none of the men could be spared from the strife to make their daily devotions to Allah.

The struggle of Balthazar Claes in his quest for the Absolute, his disregard of all else save his work, and the heroic devotion of Josephine and Marguerite, are characteristic features of Balzac's art; the sordidness of life and the mad passion for the unattainable are admirably relieved, as in "Eugénie Grandet" and "Old Goriot," by a certain nobility and purity of motive.

Talk about your wifely devotion, what!

Our soil is sterile, our modes of farming have been rude until within a few years; and under the circumstances,with the Yankee notion that the getting of money is the chief end of man,exclusive devotion to labor has been deemed indispensable to success.

=Wee Dorothy.= By LAURA UPDEGRAFF A story of two orphan children, the tender devotion of the eldest, a boy, for his sister being its theme and setting.

Sincere devotion needs no outward shrine; The centre of an humble soul is thine.

They emulously honor the temple of God with sedulous and sincere oblations, offering sacrifices therein with constant devotion, not indeed of the flesh of cattle after the manner of the ancients, but peaceful sacrifices, brotherly love, devout obedience, voluntary poverty.

Be that as it may, his bearing towards his wife was always of the most chivalrous and courteous devotion, so courteous as perhaps to confirm this interpretation of his marriage.

The senate was indignant at the utter devotion of the masses to him and took up his bones, on the plea that it was impious for them to lie in that consecrated spot; they were persuaded by the pontifices to make this declaration although they buried many other men there both before and after.

Your servant reflects, that Chow-wong who lost his empire and life entirely through his blind devotion to Takee, is a fit example to warn your Majesty.

But the disciple of the New School (no wonder it found so many impugners, even in its own bosom!) is to be always the hero of duty; the law to which he has bound himself never swerves nor relaxes; his feeling of what is right is to be at all times wrought up to a pitch of enthusiastic self-devotion; he must become the unshrinking martyr and confessor of the public good.

The Rev. Mr. Hoole performed this kind office in my presence for the last time, when, by his own desire, no more than the Litany was read; in which his responses were in the deep and sonorous voice which Mr. Boswell has occasionally noticed, and with the most profound devotion that can be imagined.

It began in the formal Italian manner,"Most gentle Princess,"and it ended with an equally formal assurance of respectful devotion.

The Aetnawhich seems to date from about 47-6reveals the young philosopher, if it is Vergil, in a serious mood of single-minded devotion to his new pursuit.