First-rate conversation generally springs from a desire to shine, or from the effort of a full mind to relieve itself, or from exuberant animal spirits, or from deep-seated misery.

I sip, As it leaves Anacreon's lip: Void of care and free from dread, From his fingers snatch his bread; Then with luscious plenty gay, Round his chamber dance and play; Or from wine as courage springs, O'er his face extend my wings; And when feast and frolic tire, Drop asleep upon his lyre.

Zinca jumps up, springs to the window, opens it, and we look out.

As almost in an instant the earthquake of Lisbon caused its influences to be felt in the remotest lakes and springs, so we also have been shaken directly by that western explosion, as was the case forty years ago.

The one springs out of the other; the outward conduct out of the inward fear; and both spring alike out of a false notion of God, which the Devil (whose great aim is to hinder us from knowing our Father in Heaven) puts into men's minds.

Salt springs exist in almost every township, accompanied, in one or two cases, by large beds of gypsum.

A pond, supplied by hidden springs, With lilies bordered round, Was found among the richest things, That blessed the widow's ground.

Injustice springs from avarice or ambition, the thirst of riches or of empire, and is the more dangerous as it appears in the more exalted spirits, causing a dissolution of all ties and obligations.

How deep and clear are the covered springs of memory!

As I am telling the story of my life, and the spiritual influences of my early years are an essential part of that life, it cannot be irrelevant to the general result that I should show how the springs of it acted.

The solitude of the Wilderness at that time can be no longer found anywhere in the vast woodland which, much mutilated and scarred by fires and clearings, still covers the district between the springs of the Mohawk and the rivers which empty into the St. Lawrence.

And He alone, who wields the storm, And bids the arrowy lightning play, Can guide the heart, when wild and warm, It springs on passion's wing away!

Thus joy is linked with every woe Each cup of ill its pleasure brings; The rose is crushed, but then, you know, The sweeter fragrance from it springs.

It is a cardboard frame, with a spring shutter closing an aperture of the size of a wafer, that springs open on the pressure of a finger, and shuts again as suddenly when the pressure is withdrawn.

Not from angry Gods, nor from deep Politicians, War nat'rally springs from the Passions of Men: 'Tis for room and for food, That Men fight and shed blood; When sufficiently thinn'd the inducement will cease: There'll be room for us all, When our numbers are small:

The water that comes to us from the springs up there in the hills is to be poisoned by those devils.

"Rasula knows that we have no means of securing water except from the springs.

Beaumont and Fletcher's love-lorn maids wear the willow very sweetly, but in all their piteous passages there is nothing equal to the natural pathosthe pathos which arises from the deep springs of characterof that one brief question and answer in King Lear.

Few men have drunk so deep of the cup of life, and from such pure sky-reflecting springs, and if it be true, in the words of his friend Walter Pater, that "to burn ever with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life," then indeed the life of William Sharp was a nobly joyous success.

Where is the poem that surpasses the Task in the genuine love it breathes, at once toward inanimate and animate existencein truthfulness of perception and sincerity of presentationin the calm gladness that springs from a delight in objects for their own sake, without self-referencein divine sympathy with the lowliest pleasures, with the most shortlived capacity for pain?

Now, at last, I am eagerly interested in every communication that springs out of an acquaintance with my husband and taskworks.

She seeks to penetrate into the motives of life, and to reveal the hidden springs of action; to show how people affect each other; how ideas mould the destinies of the individual.

Of a sudden he spied a wooden pail upon a shelf in the corner, and without invitation, almost as a wild beast springs, he made for it, grasped the big tin dipper in both hands; drank measure after measure, the overflow trickling down his bare throat and dripping onto the sanded floor.

Hans Mueller had been moving on and on; another half minute and he would have been behind the base of the hill out of sight; when, as from the turf at one's feet there springs a-wing a covey of prairie grouse, from the tall grass about the retreating figure there leaped forth a swarm of other similar dark figures: a dozen, a scorein front, behind, all about.

The thought of getting rid of Kromitzki does not come from the outside, but springs from me and exists within me.