But, in others, wouldn't he have fired her with his own ideas and feelings, and violent passions and enthusiasms!

Their evil passions were all awake, and the plan, so long indefinite, developed like a photographer's plate.

In Canto III I have portrayed the "tender passion" and its melancholy result on the hill-sidea fitting illustration of the fact that the course of true love never did run smooth, especially if there were big rocks to knock one's toes against.

He shook his head in sudden, unwonted passion.

One or two distorted notions, a wild imagination, and fierce passions, and there you have the ingredients ready.

Only Kaviak seemed likely to come unscathed through the ordeal of the winter's captivity; only he could take the best place at the fire, the best morsel at dinner, and not stir angry passions; only he dared rouse Mac when the Nova Scotian fell into one of his bear-with-a-sore-head moods.

His Harold and Manfred had the same burden on them which I had; and I was not in a frame of mind to desire any comfort from the vehement sensual passion of his Giaours, or the sullenness of his Laras.

I remained poised above him, spent and breathless from struggle, scarcely conscious even as to what had occurred so swiftly, the dripping knife in my hand, blood streaming down my cheek, and still infuriated by blind passion.

"Many achievements of beneficent Courage have undoubtedly been accomplished by men influenced by no motive but that generous love of glory which is so frequently the predominant passion of an active and ardent mind: but the virtues that arise from this source are as unsteady, and as precarious, as the reward they pursue.

Thrown upon the world with brutal passions scarcely controlled by a particle of reason, whirled hither and thither in a general and fearful cataclysm, he shows us preëminently the wonderful designs of Providence carried into effect, as it were, by a succession of blind and sudden impulses.

But the freaks of youthful passion are endless, and it was evident that they loved each other sincerely.

Yet when he stands beside her and smiles beneath her gaze, Her cheek is pale with passion pure, though few the words she says.

Oh, my God!" Lenore turned away her face, shocked to her heart by his tragic passion.

All communication between us, in spite of our ardent and ungovernable passion, had been so casual and so slight.

They delivered to these messengers a schedule containing the chief articles of their demands; which was no sooner shown to the king than he burst into a furious passion, and asked why the barons did not also demand of him his kingdom?

"How long I could have withstood the corrosive effects of my hopeless passion, irritated as it was by my being in the vicinity of its objectby hearing perpetually of her beauty, and sometimes catching a glimpse of it,I know not; but the Omrah, after a few months spent with his father-in-law, returned with his bride to his castle in the country.

Only Kazan saw the stealthy movement of the hand, the fondling clutch of the fingers in her hair, and the mad passion burning in the eyes of the man.

In what secret hole, and for what purpose, what secret passion, did he conceal it?

'Tis such an Honour, Sir, that my Gratitude, without the mighty Passion I have for her, would make me ever thankful.

had you no other reason for choosing as your heroine Sappho, the victim of the idolatry of intellecttrying in vain to fill her heart with the friendship of her own sex, and then sinking into mere passion for a handsome boy, and so down into self- contempt and suicide?

In this, as in the rest of her self-imposed tortures and degradations, the impulse manifestly came not from above, but from the mistaken imaginings of an over-wrought mind encased in a frail and delicate frame; and these morbid fancies were based on her intense passion for self-abasement.

[110] The Mona were aged people, without sexual passions; hence this episode presents a situation out of the ordinary.

He possessed not the romantic gallantry of the conqueror of Darius; he had none of those ardent and ungovernable passions, through whose medium the victories of Arbela and Issus had transformed the generous hero into the lawless tyrant.

Disgraced in the eyes of the companions of his debaucheries, and forced in his solitary confinement to make painful reflections on the consequences of his conduct, he seemed to be cured of his fatal passion, and when released, he returned no more to Padua; but, giving up the study of the law, he devoted himself to commerce, to which the contagious mania of making money, of becoming rich, made him steadily apply himself.

"This does, indeed, sir, seem to foretell one of those painful histories of unbridled passion, with the still more painful consequences," said the young man with the steadiness of one who was unconscious of having a personal connexion with any events of a nature so unpleasant.