In the first raptures of requited affection, what lover thinks of difficulties?

I know not what strange power thou bear'st about thee, But at thy sight or touch my Sense forsakes me, And that, withal I had design'd to say, Turns to a strange disorder'd Rapture in me.

Then this shadow of recollection faded away once more, and she moved forward, walking in a soft rapture over the delicious turf.

" Glancing riverwards, he saw the dirty imp, who had been so wildly entertained by the encounter on the ice, still huddled on his drift-wood observatory, presenting as little surface to the cold as possible, but grinning still with rapture at the spirited last act of the winter-long drama.

The reconciliation between Miss Honeyman and her lodger was perfect, and for a brief season Lady Ann Newcome was in rapture with her new lodgings and every person and thing which they contained.

The modest, the sober, and the learned are rarely invited to their sumptuous banquets, only the most worthless of mankind,parasites who applaud every look and gesture, who gaze with rapture on marble columns and variegated pavements, and strenuously praise the pomp and elegance which he is taught to consider as a part of his personal merit.

And thus in brilliant rhetoric we have a painting of a man whose life was in striking contrast with his teachings,a Judas Iscariot, uttering divine philosophy; a Seneca, accumulating millions as the tool of Nero; a fallen angel, pointing with rapture to the realms of eternal light.

And when, a few days later, he arrived at the Stumpinghame Palace, attended in great state by the magnificent retinue with which the father of the Princess Goldenhair had provided him, he was received with unbounded rapture by his parents.

Thus in this very pretty impression, as it may almost be called, of an ancient gem; So playful Love on Ida's flowery sides With ribbon-rein the indignant lion guides; Pleased on his brindled back the lyre he rings, And shakes delirious rapture from the strings; Slow as the pausing monarch stalks along, Sheathes his retractile claws, and drinks the song.

Here is a letter from Georgie Kirkbank which you will have to answer for me to-morrowa letter full of raptures about Mr. Smithson's place in Berkshire, Rood Hall.

Who would not seek the happy land, Where they that loved are blest; Where loyal hearts and true Stand ever in the light, All rapture through and through, In God's most holy sight?"

She threw back her head and looked with rapture into the limitless blue above her, with something of the vision which came to Elisha's servant at Dothan when he saw the mountains were filled with the horses and the chariots of the Lord!

She attached as little meaning to a life of mere raptures as to one of bare, loveless duty.

If, she said to herself, they got no raptures out of life, at least they got along without friction.

It was a little fatiguing, as she thought it her duty to keep up an expression of acute rapture during the whole of the performance, which lasted at least three-quarters of an hour.

And for years he had refused to frame them for fear that the first blundering fool who caught sight of them might deem it necessary to fly into banal and facile raptures before them.

His rapture amidst the sublime scenery of mountains and forestsin the Tyrol especially, and in Spainis that of a spirit cast originally in one of nature's finest moulds; and he fixes it in language which can scarcely be praised beyond its desertssimple, massive, nervous, apparently little laboured, yet revealing, in its effect, the perfection of art.

Whereas if he springs forth, now and then, in high raptures towards the uppermost heavens; dashing, here and there, an all-confounding word!

The royalty for the first seven days was a surprise, which would have thrown Bambi into raptures under ordinary circumstances.

But the whole brood looked so healthful and fresh in the bright sunshine that their father could not resist taking them in his arms, and kissing them here and there, wherever his lips lighted, a final game which sent them into perfect rapture amid a fresh explosion of laughter and shouts.

It is impossible (every respectfulness of endeavour notwithstanding) to maintain the gravity of one's imagination at the thought of a set of doctors of the Church, Venerable Bede included, wheeling about in giddy rapture like so many dancing dervises, and keeping time to their ecstatic anilities with voices tinkling like church-clocks.

It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue, when he is discharged from the labor of uniting two incongruous styles, when he is at liberty to indulge his choral raptures without reserve, that he rises even above himself.

I was conscious to a kind of rapture for which I could not account.