I am still so weak that much writing is forbidden me, and therefore to reply to them all as my affection dictates is impossible.

If she loves you, time will prove it; therefore let the new affection spring and ripen as your early friendship has done, and it will be all the stronger for a summer's growth.

Light is breaking into it's dungeons, disclosing the wreck of buried intellectof hearts brokenof human affections outragedof souls ruined.

Touched by the mournful solemnity and deep affection breathing in every line, he complied with her request, and spent four or five days peacefully at home.

All other loves with which the world doth blind Weak fancies, and stir up affections base, Thou must renounce and utterly displace, And give thyself unto him full and free, That full and freely gave himself to thee.

"To him, with warm affections crost, Who, owning happiness was lost, Had said, 'Dear maiden, were I free, They would not let me think of thee; The only one who on my sight Breaks lovely as the morning light; Whom my heart bounding springs to greet, Seeks not, but always hopes to meet; With eager joy unlocks its store, Yet ever pines to tell thee more!'

For in his calm and yielding breast The soft affections dwelt.

It is not too much to say that had Apuleius really known such a thing as modern romantic loveor conjugal affection eitherit would have required great ingenuity on his part to invent a plot from which those qualities are so rigorously excluded.

" I had said nothing of the honourable, or the just; but what weakness will not parental affection encourage?

To praise, yet still with due respect to praise, A bard triumphant in immortal bays, The learn'd to show, the sensible commend, Yet still preserve the province of the friend, What life, what vigour, must the lines require, What music tune them, what affection fire!

Less pure for them affection glows, Less of intrinsic joy bestows, Less mellowing, less enlivening, flows!

Affections group round and bless it, like so many angels; it could not analyse or comprehend an angel, but it could feel the soft shelter of his wings.

By it both parties are kept needlessly on the fret, until the long-looked-for opportunity unexpectedly arrives, when the flood-gates of feeling are loosened, and the full tide of mutual affection gushes forth uncontrolled.

thy young years, and all thy wants supplied; Whose every precept breath'd affection kind, And to the friend's, a father's love allied.

We know nothing about M. Héger's attachment, and we haven't any earthly right to know; but from all that is known of M. Héger it is certain that, if it was not entirely intellectual, not entirely that "affection presque paternelle" that he once professed, it was entirely restrained and innocent and honourable.

"The mind's affections patience will appease, It passions kills, and healeth each disease.

Glaring faults, impulsive offenses, crime even it may be, I could have forgiven, so long as his allegiance had been mine, and his affection proof against change, but coldness, perfidy, loathing, such as he had avowed, these could never be redeemed in any way, nor considered other than they were, insuperable objections to our honorable union.

This conjecture is corroborated by the numerous instances in history and in story of fosterage affection proving, when tested, stronger than the natural affection of relatives by birth.

AMI, E, avec qui on est lié d'une affection réciproque.

For this we pray in vain Unless he does in our affections reign.

And when I see thee hang thy head, 'Twill be my turn to watch thy bed, And tears of sweet affection shed, My Mother.

Tut, she is a fool that her affection smothers: 'Twas not for love I was the doctor's wife, Nor did he love me, when he first was mine.

I should say my sister's and my own character are diametrically opposed, and have been utterly different from our birth, though a very strong affection subsists between us.

" His eyes are like a balance, apt to propend each way, and to be weighed down with every wench's looks, his heart a weathercock, his affection tinder, or naphtha itself, which every fair object, sweet smile, or mistress's favour sets on fire.

His warm affection transpires even more clearly in the two following documents: "I should like you to be thoroughly convinced that all the labours I have ever undergone have not been more for myself than for your sake.