Ambition was the fault of the seraphim in the commencementbe well assured that some of the old angelic leaven lingers still about all of its votaries and victims.

Poetry was to be the heart and centre of actual living; modern life seemed full of "prose and pettiness" as compared with the Middle Ages; it was the doctrine of this Mary in the family of Bethany to leave to the Martha of dull externalists the care of many things, while she "chose the better part" in contemplative lingering at the vision of what was essentially higher.

A young lover's first kiss, a young hunter's first deer, and a young lawyer's first case, doubtless linger in their several memories, as events of moment.

Those in whom that fancy lingers must have but a paltry standard of what righteousness is, a mean conception of moralthat is, spiritualperfection.

Ambition was the fault of the seraphim in the commencementbe well assured that some of the old angelic leaven lingers still about all of its votaries and victims.

Yet I must needs a little linger here.

"Since thou wilt have me curious," he said, "why hast thou come hither, and more than all, being here, why dost thou linger?" "The season is advanced, Carlo," she answered, speaking scarcely above her breath, "and we should look in vain among the cells.

How long wilt linger? MEPHISTOPHELES Sire, Relax, I pray, such vehement desire!