Cold houses, coarse food unskilfully cooked, long winters, harsh springs, however favorable to the heroism of the stomach, the lungs, and the spirits, are not found conducive to longevity.

" The Kitzmuller is a beady-eyed, cheery-looking ancient woman, answers questions with a rising inflection, and gives a good account of the Captain, who got into the vehicle without assistance, and was in excellent spirits.

The lights burnt blue, as they're wont to do When Spirits are in the wind.

The Author of Evil was present in the room with him in bodily shape, and, potent with spirits of a melancholy cast, was impressing upon him the desperation of his state, and urging suicide as the readiest mode to put an end to his sinful career.

So much encouraged did she feel with regard to herself, that, on this final evening, an intimate female friend was admitted to her bedside and found her in good spirits, ready at pleasantry and willing to converse on all the old loved subjects.

Her spirits became very high, however, and she enjoyed herself much; and it is perhaps only very very critical folk, bent on spying out a fault, that could have detected the little clouds of anxiety that now and then shot across her face.

Morning, which awakens all young creatures to life, enjoyment, and action, awoke Aurora among the rest, and she arose in health and strength, and the full glow of animal spirits.

Mr. Falkland could only allege, that the state of his health and spirits was such, that he feared a residence at his house would be little agreeable to his kinsman; and Mr. Forester conceived that this was a disqualification which would always augment in proportion as it was tolerated, and hoped that his society, by inducing Mr. Falkland to suspend his habits of seclusion, would be the means of essential benefit.

On the very first forenoon, our thirst was so excessive, that the farmer contrived to insert a spigot into this huge cask, and really such a treasure I think was hardly ever opened to a set of poor thirsty spirits.

bright spirits of the past; Here may your ashes sleep while time shall last.

This, together with the sameness of a prison life, brings on a weariness of mind, which renders any change agreeable to their now broken spirits; the prospect of a removal occasions a temporary excitement, which, to those unaccustomed to reason on the matter, may appear like gaiety, and carelessness of the future.

Those who possess an unusual buoyancy of spirits, and gloss over their feelings with their companions, I have ever observed on the whole, to feel the most internal agony.

"Then the vital commoners and inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain, the heart.

Two spirits pass by, the spirit of Fate (Fatalité), which is the enemy of man, and the spirit of God (Dieu), which is the friend of man.

In Dieu: Le Corbeau, the spirits of good and evil are thus described: L'un est l'Esprit de vie, au vol d'aigle, aux yeux d'astre, Qui rayonne, crée, aime, illumine, construit; Et l'autre est l'araignée énorme de la nuit.

lémure: Lémures (the singular is very rare) is the Latin lemures, the disembodied spirits which haunted houses and caused terror to the living.

The principles which control the many national spirits are limited.

Each nation as an existing individuality is guided by its particular principles, and only as a particular individuality can each national spirit win objectivity and self-consciousness; but the fortunes and deeds of States in their relation to one another reveal the dialectic of the finite nature of these spirits.

Midnight, the evil hour of spirits, awakens me, and I lie at the window in the cold winter wind.

Beethoven stopped in the burning sun and said, "Goethe's poems exercise a great power over me, not alone through their content, but also through their rhythm, and I am incited and moved to compose by his language, which is built up as if by the aid of spirits into a sublime structure that bears within it the mystery of harmonies.

Although the spirits live upon music as man lives upon air, it is a very different matter to comprehend it with the spirit.

He was, as he said, a lover of men; the worship of nature drained and exhausted the sympathies, the wills and the spirits of men.

He is worshipped by the dwarfs because he has opened the mysteries of inanimate nature, and he commands the spirits of classical life represented by Antinous, and the pagan' gods and demi-gods, the personifications of the naïve impulses of nature.

Neither of them, to my infinite joy, has ever returned... "Depressed by want of food, Sir," continued Thompson, by sheer duress preventing my father from following his guests and attempting to pacify them, "I have taken to spirits.

I do not like the taste of spirits and they go at once to my head.