But now her Vows to marry none but me, Are given to Alcippus, and in his bosom breath'd, With balmy whispers, whilst the ravisht Youth For every syllable returns a kiss, And in the height of all his extasy, Philander's dispossess'd and quite forgotten.

" "That's capital!" cried Florio, in an extasy of admiration.

And so none being found like unto him, God sent in Adam a lust to sleep, which was no dream, but as is supposed in an extasy or in a trance; in which was showed to him the celestial court.

no longer, he broke out in an extasy, aut tu es Morus, aut Nullus.

In which they see such admirable things, 260 As carries them into an extasy; And heare such heavenly notes and carolings Of Gods high praise, that filles the brasen sky; And feele such ioy and pleasure inwardly, That maketh them all worldly cares forget, 265 And onely thinke on that before them set.

If he have done any thing that has passed with applause, he is always re-acting it alone, and conceits the extasy his hearers were in at every period.

Looke well upon't, deare syster; extasy May dimme myne eyes, it cannot purblind thyne.

While on the string of extasy, it pours 355 Thy future triumphs o'er unnumber'd shores.

When o' suddain, I saw the pole tremble and sway towardes me; and stretching forth my apron I did, in an extasy of gladness, pity, and horror, catch its burthen as it fell.

Our artist has endeavoured to represent the noble creature in his bath, though the pencil can afford but an imperfect idea of the extasy of the animal on this occasion.

We think we see and hear his stout figure, in black, with florid face, and powdered hair, his raised and clasped hands,rushing out of the lockup-house scene in all the fervid extasy of a father rejoicing at the escape of his son from destruction.

Who sees thy yielding Queen, and would not be On any terms, the best, the happy he; Entranc'd we fancy all is extasy.

This, and the Extasy, (published since the death of the author) are justly esteemed two of the noblest Odes in our language.

After an hour or two had passed in this painful anxiety, at last the clock struck twelve, when Mr. Dennis, in an extasy, cried out, addressing himself to the suspected person, 'Now sir, Bailiff, or no Bailiff, I don't care a farthing for you, you have no power now.'

She felt all the elevated sentiments of pious extasy and triumph, which breath in that exquisite piece of sacred poetry.

stamp'd in nature's mint with extasy!

Or speak that thought which every part surveyed, 'Directing where the rage of war should glow:' While watchful angels hover'd round thy head, And victory on high the palm of glory spread. XIV. Nor royal youth reject the artless praise, Which due to worth like thine the Muse bestows, Who with prophetic extasy surveys These early wreaths of fame adorn thy brows.

When Mr. Rickerton first saw Mr. Thomson's Winter, which was in a Bookseller's shop at Edinburgh, he stood amazed, and after he had read the lines quoted below, he dropt the poem from his hand in the extasy of admiration.

He learned from the Bookseller the circumstances already mentioned, and, in the extasy of his admiration of this poem, he went from Coffee-house to Coffee house, pointing out its beauties, and calling upon all men of taste, to exert themselves in rescuing one of the greatest geniuses that ever appeared, from obscurity.

Love in its Extasy, described on the title-page as 'a kind of Royall Pastorall,' was written, at the age of seventeen, by a student of Eton College, whom it has been customary to identify with one William Peaps.

Love in its Extasy itself cannot, without some straining of the term, be called a pastoral, though there are certain links serving to connect it with pastoral tradition.

Something seemed to call her, and the day, the rapid motion, the exhilaration of the atmosphere, as she dashed through it, softened her excitement, and a calm, elevated, half-religious extasy possessed her; and the sky and air, and brown, desolate earth, just warming with the April sun, all glowed with hope.