he pants not for superior bliss; Thrice-bless'd his virgin modesty shall be To snatch an evanescent ecstacy!

Rousseau could not contain his ecstacy at beholding a little flower (la parvenche) in bloom, which thirty years before, Madame de Warens had first pointed out to his notice.

It is one thing to introduce the fulsome badinage of compliment with which French tragedy abounds, and another to exhibit the "very ecstacy of love: Whose violent property foredoes itself, And leads the will to desperate undertakings, As oft as any passion under heaven, That does afflict our natures.

Old House Molly, as she is called, from the circumstance of her having been one of the slaves employed in domestic offices during Major 's residence on the island, is one of the oldest and most respected slaves on the estate, and was introduced to me by Mr. with especial marks of attention and regard; she absolutely embraced him, and seemed unable sufficiently to express her ecstacy at seeing him again.

Mayhap Miss Smith does not share the same ecstacy; perhaps, as she stands behind the screen in Joseph Surface's rooms, Sir Peter's wife is wishing that the comedy were ended and she were comfortably ensconced in her cosy little lodgings round the corner.

Out of that palpitating speck of living joy there wells forth a sea of twittering ecstacy upon the morning and evening air.