We need not despair of the child who does not care to read, for books are not the only means of culture; but they are a very great means when the mind is really stimulated, and not simply padded with them.

And woman by one look unkind, one frown, can bring despair Upon the bosom of the man whose spirit worships her.

Madame will remember her despair, her horror, when she entered her room to find the cabinet gone, taken away, sold by that....

At last towards morning, an animal instinct began to wake, coming from he did not know where, which turned his despair towards the secret need of finding a definite and concrete cause, to fasten the blame on a man, or a group of men, and angrily hold them responsible for the misery of the world.

Has the revolving Sphere two days opposed thy wish, Know that the circling Round is changeful found: Despair

but I shall surmount all other Difficulties; and inspired by so noble a Motive for the Care of my Fortune, as the Belief she is to be concerned in it, I will not despair of receiving her one Day from her Fathers own Hand.

We feel the intense anxiety of the riders to reach Aix on timefor we are given to understand in the last line of the third stanza that Aix must learn the news by a certain hour; we feel the despair of the two who are forced to give up the attempt, and the increased sense of responsibility of the only remaining rider; and we fairly hold our breath in our fear that the gallant Roland will not stand the strain.

"He also gave you the ship Despair," concluded the captain.

It was an age of extremes which bred despair and religious fervor in men of the Puritan party, as represented by Bunyan and Milton, and conscious artificiality and mock heroics in those of the Cavalier faction, as represented by Herrick and the Earl of Rochester.

Yea, chain him howling to yon desert rock, Where, thronging ghastly from uncounted graves, His victims murmur 'midst the groans of waves, And mock his soul's despair, his deep blaspheming ban!

Reflections that may drive away despair, cannot be wanting to him who considers how much life is now advanced beyond the state of naked, undisciplined, uninstructed nature.

Thus the motives of consolation I had offered, only served to nourish his despair.

I gazed on the sceneI saw despair On the pallid brows of a youthful pair.

But to such a nature will also come the subtlest and deepest despairs of which the human heart is capable.

Incline a gracious ear to me, And bid me not despair.

And first he would say, that the present deplorable state of that country, especially when we reflected that her chief calamities were to be ascribed to us, called for our generous aid, rather than justified any despair, on our part, of her recovery, and still less a repetition of our injuries.

" For some minutes they continued in silence; then Moreau seized his old friend's arm, and said excitedly: "How did you know it?"and his resistance having broken down, he confessed the despair hidden under his aggressive determination to believe and act.

No, I dare not despair of you English, as long as I hear your priesthood forced by Providence, even in spite of themselves, thus to speak God's words about an age in which the condition of the poor, and the rights and duties of man, are becoming the rallying-point for all thought and all organisation.'

"I can leave you to imagine the scenemy despair, Molly's tears!

Contrition, penitence, remorse, Came on me, with o'erwhelming force; A hope, a longing, an endeavor, By days of penance and nights of prayer, To frustrate and defeat despair!

Can infinite wisdom despair of gaining or keeping people’s affections without having recourse to such mean acts?” He exposes with considerable effect the monstrosity of the doctrine of exclusive salvation.

His eyes, till the doctor closed them, expressed a frenzied despair.

But work even under strain or pain would have been preferable to endless hours to think, to remember, to fight despair.

He stood there motionlessa desolate old man, bowed and shrunken and greystaring blindly out before him, unconscious of all things save the despair that had settled in his heart.

Them, who are now dissatisfied, I shall despair of influencing by reason or testimony; for they seem to inquire only to condemn; nor is this motion, perhaps, made so much for the sake of obtaining information, as of harassing the ministry with delays, and suspending affairs of greater importance.