But there is no single Passage in the whole Poem worked up to a greater Sublimity, than that wherein his Person is described in those celebrated Lines: He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Tower, &c. His Sentiments are every way answerable to his Character, and suitable to a created Being of the most exalted and most depraved Nature.

These and similar sentiments I used to entertain in the world concerning the life of men after death; but now, since I have seen all things, and touched them with my hands, I am convinced by my very senses that I am a man as I was in the world; so that I know no other than that I live now as I lived formerly; with only this difference, that my reason now is sounder.

Their prevailing sentiment is an affectation of misanthropy, conveyed in such lines as these: Weary of love, of life, devour'd with spleen, I rest, a perfect Timon, not nineteen.

This sentiment, that miracles are not the proper evidences of doctrinal truth, is, assuredly, the decision of the Truth itself; as is obvious from many passages in Scripture.

" Elenko promised most fervently that Prometheus' theological sentiments should remain a mystery to the public.

The sentiments we have mutually expressed of profound gratitude to the source of those numerous blessings, the Author of all Good, are pledges of our obligations to unite our sincere and zealous endeavors, as the instruments of Divine Providence, to preserve and perpetuate them.

Moreover, the essential sentiments of the time and place are, first, a hard egoism which thinks mainly of self-preservation, and second, a stern sense of duty which regulates it.

" "The sentiments which I entertain for your wife, Lord Dredlinton," Wingate declared, "are not sentiments of friendship.

His only other sentiment was a passionate desire to prevent harm or even fear from approaching Clara Van Diemen.

Your Sentiments and Advice herein will be a great Consolation and Satisfaction to, SIR, Your Admirer and Humble Servant, W. B.

Each gen'rous sentiment is thine, Demetrius, Whose soul, perhaps, yet mindful of Aspasia, Now hovers o'er this melancholy shade, Well pleas'd to find thy precepts not forgotten.

That all-pervading and all-conquering sentiment was the admiration of ideal virtues and beauties which her rapt and excited soul saw in her adored lover; such as Dante saw in his departed Beatrice.

The sentiment of many counties was thoroughly Jacobite.

The metaphor struck me as inappropriate, but the sentiment was most healthy; and when I finally beheld two officers of police sitting on the head of a drunken man for toasting the fallen régime, I could say to myself, as I turned into the bank, "Order reigns in Warsaw.

Of the true criteria of love, the altruistic sentiments of gallantry, self-sacrifice, sympathy, adoration, there is no sign in any of these poems.

And, anyhow, what are books, to hurt people's feelings about?' (A laudable sentiment, and one which should be illuminated as a text on the writing table of every reviewer.) 'Oh, of course I know he's a friend of yours,' she added.

Sentiment is a poor ape of love; but the love is true notwithstanding.

The satisfaction created by this event is general, though the same sentiment is the result of various conclusions, which, however, all tend to one objectthe re-establishment of monarchy.

The sentiments expressed in the first stanza rescued from oblivion will be sufficient to indicate the character of the others: "Je ne suis plus oiseau des champs, Mais de ces oiseaux des Tournelles Qui parlent d'amour en tout temps, Et qui plaignent les tourterelles De ne se baiser qu'au printemps.

And yet this modesty awed her into respect of him; for she could not forget that, whether he had sentiment much or little, sentiment was not the staple of his manhood: she could not forget his cholera work; and she knew that, under that delicate and bashful outside, lay virtue and heroism, enough and to spare.

Such a sentiment was perhaps an exaggeration; still I could not but feel a certain sympathy with its humanity.

" He had lived, as he died, with this supreme trust in an overruling and merciful Providence; and this sentiment, pervading his whole being, was the origin of that august calmness with which he greeted the most crushing disasters of his military career.

The sentiment is more fully developed in another poemMigne, vol. 80, p. 307: Femina causa fuit humanae perditionis; Qua reparatur homo, femina causa fuit.

The prevailing sentiment of these poems is a wistful clinging to this present life, a Pagan optimism which finds no fault with human existence save that it is so brief.

Here again, the underlying sentiment is the abhorrence of human recklessness and extravagance.