He spake: the Prince, as Enid past him, fain To follow, strode a stride, but Yniol caught His purple scarf, and held, and said, "Forbear! Rest!

Thereafter, when I reach'd this ruin'd hall, Beholding one so bright in dark estate, I vow'd that could I gain her, our fair Queen, No hand but hers, should make your Enid burst Sunlike from cloudand likewise thought perhaps, That service done so graciously would bind The two together; fain I would the two Should love each other: how can Enid find A nobler friend?

True greatness is hateful to them; they would fain drive it from the world, so that only such as they might be of importance in it.

When Maggie saw him repel the hand that fain would have stroked his hair as in childish days, a longing came into her heart for some of these uncared-for tokens of her mother's love.

A wave of distant sound that was like surf accompanied his voice, as though the wind was fain to listen too: Not to the staring Day, For all the importunate questionings he pursues In his big, violent voice, Shall those mild things of bulk and multitude, The treesGod's sentinels ... Yield of their huge, unutterable selves

what next!" demanded the offended and, as she was fain to believe, neglected wife, under the impression that it was her truant husband, making his tardy return to his domestic allegiance, who had thus presumed to disturb her slumbers.

"I ask you, honest Joe, if you think the slaver, in the outer harbour of this port, a true man?" "You come across one, Bob, in your bold way, with such startling questions," returned the publican, casting his eyes obliquely around him, as if he would fain make sure of the character of the audience to which he spoke, "such stirring opinions, that really I am often non-plushed to know how to get the ideas together, to make a saving answer.

Then, losing the constrained manner with which, until now, she had maintained the discourse in one more natural, and one far more in consonance with her usually mild and thoughtful mien, Mrs. Wyllys continued, "You have a powerful advocate, young man, in the unaccountable interest which I feel in your truth; an interest that my reason would fain condemn.

Still he would make sudden and short pauses, and again rivet his gaze on the point of the compass whence the blasts came sweeping across the waste of waters; as though he distrusted the weather, and would fain cause his keen glance to penetrate the gloom of night, in order to relieve some painful doubts.

We may expect misfortune, sickness, poverty, while from these evils we would fain escape.

Fain would I love thee as I should.

There are sceptical thoughts, which seem for the moment to uproot the firmest faith: there are blasphemous thoughts, which dart unbidden into the most reverent souls: there are unholy thoughts, which torture with their hateful presence the fancy that would fain be pure.

Even in the maintenance of household discipline masters were fain to apply chastisement vicariously by having the town marshal whip their offending servants for a small fee.

forgot 'mid strife and care, I fain would try thy strings once more,

Oh think not with love's soft token, Or music my heart to thrill For its stringsits strings are broken, And the chords would fain be still!

With beckoning hands they seemed to urge My footsteps down the dizzy way, To join their train upon the surge, And dance with them amidst the spray: And such the madness of my brain, That I was fain to seek the throng; To meet and mingle on the main, With their mad revelry and song.

When the worshipper would fain ascend on wings of ecstasy to God, the infinite, ineffable, unrealised, how can he endure the contact of those splendid forms, in which the lust of the eye and the pride of life, professing to subserve devotion, remind him rudely of the goodliness of sensual existence?

But if this same fiddle you fain would play bold, You must go to his son, who'll be Young when he's old.

And yet he would so fain have forgotten her,or rather have wiped away from the reality of his past life that one episode, had it been possible.

If it were so, though he would fain see the perpetrators of that fraud on their trial for perjury, their fraud in no way diminished Caldigate's guilt.

There is no comfort in having kept one's word honestly, when one would fain have broken it dishonestly.

There was a boisterousnessalmost a brutalityabout the phrase which deterred me from reading the review; but I am fain to admit that there was a certain rude justice in the implied criticism.

Madquite mad; and all because A creature whom these mortals call a Miss, Quite properly, as her efforts are amiss, Would fain portray thee.

What does one do in these deadly dull little towns for amusement, when one is young and fain and restless?

Yet my desire keeps still above my fear, I would fain meet some Shepherd, knew I