"Sweet was the thrilling ecstacy; I know not if 'twas love, or thee.

A whole crowd of Dalecarlians, men and women, stood around, all in artistic ecstacy over my work; but the little girlthe sweet little childscreamed, and stretched out her hands after her lawful property, which she was not permitted to keep, as it was too fine.

We are stifled on beds of roseswe literally lie "on the rack of restless ecstacy."

To those who believe in solemn reticencein motionless communion with the "inner light,"there is nothing curious in this; it is, in fact, often a source of high spiritual ecstacy; but to an unitiated spectator the business looks seriously funny, and its continuance for any length of time causes the mind of such a one to run in all kinds of dreadfully ludicrous grooves.

" "Mr. Bartonwho he was I never found outhaving eulogized this little effusion with a superhuman ecstacy, repeated it right to a linebut not to a word.

To me Life is supremest ecstacy!

Nobody will ever die in a state of architectural ecstacy through gazing upon it; and not one out of a battalion of cynics will say that it is too ornamental.

They can breathe, and walk about, laugh, and grow fat without any difficulty, and they are sanguine of being landed in ultimate ecstacy if they conduct themselves fairly.