Tir'd of excursions, visitings, and sights, No joys are pleasing to these home delights.

My dear F.When I think how welcome the sight of a letter from the world where you were born must be to you in that strange one to which you have been transplanted, I feel some compunctious visitings at my long silence.

In some hours of calmer reflection, however, he felt the compunctious visitings of conscience, and convinced of the injustice which he had done to Mr. Wesley, "in the most solemn manner he professed to him his regret for his unkind usage; and, to express his sincerity, embraced and kissed him with the most cordial affection."

It might have been expected that a man of his religious disposition would have felt some compunctious visitings, when from the bed of death he looked back on the strange eventful career of his past life.

Very strange indeed, thought I; and began to have my suspicions that in all this might be traced "fair woman's visitings."

"The Emperor," as Mr. Augustus was called, from his stately manner and dignified deportment, aided by as much self-esteem as could well be contained in a human body, depended, without any "compunctuous visitings of conscience," on the venison, claret, and champagne of his friends, and thought all the time he did them honour:and thus he passed his life.

My whole youth was a succession of inconsiderate yieldings to passion, and of hasty visitings of remorse.

make thick my blood, Stop up th' access and passage to remorse; That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th' effect and it!

The intent of Lady Macbeth evidently is to wish that no womanish tenderness, or conscientious remorse, may hinder her purpose from proceeding to effect; but neither this, nor indeed any other sense, is expressed by the present reading, and, therefore, it cannot be doubted that Shakespeare wrote differently, perhaps, thus: That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep pace between Th' effect and it.

A close Intimacy between their Parents made each of them the first Acquaintance the other knew in the World: They played, dressed Babies, acted Visitings, learned to Dance and make Curtesies, together.

35 And seemliness complete, that sways Thy courtesies, about thee plays; With no restraint, but such as springs From quick and eager visitings Of thoughts that lie beyond the reach 40 Of thy few words of English speech: A bondage sweetly brooked, a strife That gives thy gestures grace and life!

350 Thanks to the means which Nature deigned to employ; Whether her fearless visitings, or those That came with soft alarm, like hurtless light Opening the peaceful clouds; or she may use Severer interventions, ministry 355 More palpable, as best might suit her aim.

Four-and-twenty trials, ere as many hours are o'er, Of four-and-twenty genera of rival Kalydor; Four-and-twenty scentings with her dear bergamot, Four-and-twenty daubs of her dear paint-pot; Four-and-twenty visitings to four-and-twenty friends, And four-and-twenty tales of 'em, before the day ends; Of these said four-and-twenty tales just four-and-twenty versions, And all of them of all the facts most farcica perversions.