Raptures, Transports, and Ecstacies are the Rewards which they confer: Sighs and Tears, Prayers and broken Hearts, are the Offerings which are paid to them.

No endeavor is in vain; Its reward is in the doing, And the rapture of pursuing, Is the prize the vanquished gain.

After long agony, rapture of bliss, Christ is the pathway leading to this!"

Next Marloe bathed in Thespian springs, Had in him those brave sublunary things, That your first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear; For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.

Ah my dear daughter, would she say frequently to her, how much should I rejoice to find in you a desire to forgo all the transitory fleeting pleasures of the world, and devote yourself entirely to heaven!what raptures would not your innocent soul partake, when wholly devoid of all thought of sensual objects!

Before I regained the little strength I ever had, the war was over, but I had done my best to serve my country, and the rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished know.

" Ethel's mother was constantly falling in love with new acquaintances; so these raptures were no novelty to her daughter.

'I think the raptures are genuine gush,' said Bessie; 'but that is so much the worse for Arthurine.

Leigh Hunt's deliberate view of Byron is that he did everything for effect, that his vanity was boundless and insatiable, and that even his raptures were stage raptures.

Before I regained the little strength I ever had, the war was over, but I had done my best to serve my country, and the rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished know.

He explains the scientific arguments as if they were the radiant revelation of a new world; and the rapture of his enthusiasm is a strange accompaniment of a doctrine which aimed at perfect calm.

Give me unquell'd those impulses to prove; Rapture so deep, its ecstasy was pain, The power of hate, the energy of love, Give me, oh give me back my youth again!