The wanton Aries first descends, To show the Vigor and the Play, Beginning Love, beginning Love attends, When the young Passion is all-over Joy, He bleats his soft Pain to the fair curled Throng, And he leaps, and he bounds, and loves all the day long.

This wild passion, or principle, is a kind of fanaticism by which they distinguish those of their own party, and which they look upon as a certain indication of a great mind.

Not the passions of the minde, for the minde many times is sicke, when the bodie is healthfull.

If the observation be true, that passion is a short madness, then it is evident that self-interest, and every other consideration, must be lost, so long as it continues.

Burton proved himself a keener observer and psychologist when he wrote (F.F., 122), "The Somal knows none of the exaggerated and chivalrons ideas by which passion becomes refined affection among the Arab Bedouins and the sons of civilization."

It had six doors, opening into two entries, one small bedroom, one sitting room, one cellar, and one china closet; a passion for entrances and exits having been the whim of that generation.

His passion is fickle, his adoration little more than adulation, and the expressions of unselfish devotion here and there do not mean more than the altiloquent words of Achilles about Briseis or of Admetus about Alcestis, for they are not backed up by altruistic actions.

For the same reason the passions are the main theme of poets and the stalking horse of actors.

The principal passion of the old gentleman was the love of money.

'My passion for my beloved (which, as I told them in a high and fervent accent, was the truest that man could have for woman)

I was convinced then that a grand passion was a folly.

All but once the passions he had felt were his own deep property....

During the summer months, the principal passion and employment of Sam's life is to visit, in this vehicle, the most eminent seats of the nobility and gentry in different parts of the kingdom, with his wife and some select friends.

Anyhow, passion was not a quality that could be given to a good woman; and so the good women of Dickens and Thackeray are conspicuously without it.

His passions are so many good servants, which stand in a diligent attendance ready to be commanded by reason, by religion; and if at any time forgetting their duty, they be miscarried to rebel, he can first conceal their mutiny, then suppress it.

Not to find him there, his passion, endurance, faith, rapture, despair, is merely a confession of want in ourselves.'

It was natural that the strongest passion in him should be his hatred of the lynx, for not only Gray Wolf's blindness and the death of the pups, but even the loss of the woman and the baby he laid to that fatal struggle on the Sun Rock.

It was a new field for him, but one in which he might retrieve his reputation,for it must be borne in mind that his ruling passion was fame, and that he had gained all he could expect by his literary productions.

The chance has brought me into the position of having for a client a man the passion of whose life has been the very reverse.

But I have had reason more than once in her case, to conclude, that the passions of the gentle, slower to be moved than those of the quick, are the most flaming, the most irresistible, when raised.

That passion of hers, so sweet, so youthful, so sincere, was a butt of public laughter, a theme for idle tongues, who flayed her as if she were a common street-woman, because she had been good to him, because she had not been cruel enough to watch a young man writhe in the torment of passion, indifferently....

A passion, for her, is a campaign; and her deadliest enemy is satiety.

If the master passion of Pitt's mind was enthusiasm for his country, Fox was swayed by the still nobler enthusiasm of Humanity.

He also interested himself in literature and music, but his real passion was science.

The passions, that of love especially, she was mistress of, and gave us such nice and tender touches of them, that without her name we might discover the author.'