The radiant joy of them, and their smiles, never far from tears, were the manifestation of a form of human emotion, singularly pure and indescribably moving.

Lamb, at his best, ranges with Shakspearian facility the gamut of human emotion, exclaiming, as it were at one moment, with Jaques, "Motley's the only wear!"in the next probing the source of tears.

Whatever might be said for his act from the point of view of human emotion only made his motive and responsibility under the statues all the clearer.

A quiet thoughtfulness takes the place of the pure, joyous sensation of the morning, a thoughtfulness which is not sad, though like all quiet moods it is akin to sadness, and which sounds the deeps of human emotion in the presence of nature.

Besides the songs of nature and of human emotion, Burns has given us a large number of poems for which no general title can be given.

The Elizabethan age impartially held the mirror up to every type of human emotion.

Nature is employed in order to give human emotion a proper background.

"Life's Progress through the Passions: or, the Adventures of Natura" avowedly aims to trace the workings of human emotion.

"The essential connection of the power of landscape with human emotion is not less certain because in many impressive pictures the link is slight or local.

If we look through the whole range of architectural forms in classic or mediaeval times, we shall find no one so indicative of any human emotion as this simple outline is of the highest of all emotions,prayer.

There's a human emotion somewhere, but it's never really there; it might have been, but it is not....

If you love me, you must know that you are committing a crime against nature in living as you are with a man who is as far removed from you in every human emotion as his workshop is from heaven.

His mind seemed a camera obscura in which everything that passed before it was recorded permanently, but he added in the rendering of its record nothing which sprang from human emotion, or which involved that remoulding of the perception that makes it conception, and individual.

And in the other cases it is generally the force of an exceptionally strong will that has lost its balance, and is powerful enough to disregard all ordinary checks of reason and common sense and human emotion.

Those high officers to whom war is a science without any human emotion or pity in its rules, were determined to stamp out this irregular fighting by blood and fire, and "frightfulness" became the order of the day.

It grows feebler and dimmer in proportion as it seeks to rise above human emotion....

It would please me to observe his dry manners, his unsympathetic and monotonous cries; but neither visitor nor grasshopper would seem within the reach of any human emotion, except a mild curiosity, and even amusement.

The whole tide of human emotion was nothing compared to a drop of this terrible salt brine from seas in unknown stars....

Applying this to the Neo-Malthusian theory, we see in sexual love not only a passion which man has in common with the brute, and which forms, at the present stage of evolution, a necessary part of human nature, but an animal passion that may be trained and purified into a human emotion, which may be used as one of the levers in human progress, one of the factors in human growth.

Still, he may not yet have attained to the comprehension of perfect beauty, such, at least, as human emotion and intellect can conceive, and such as we love to imagine as inhabiting the superior spheres of the universe of which we know nothing further than the dictate of our reason, namely, that they are inhabited by beings more or less like ourselves.

This embraces, indeed, a field not wholly coincident with that of pastoral, but the two are connected alike by a common spring in human emotion and constant literary association.

Something very like a pang of human emotion pierced his heart.

The out-fling of his arm betrayed more human emotion than he had yet shown.

There history itself is taken up, transformed, and made immortal, the whole past of human emotion and action contained and shown forth with convincing power.

We could take off our mourning garments and our mourning countenance, now that we were alone; or we could give way to that anguish we are afraid and ashamed to show, except before the One above human emotion.