Sometimes in our sleeping dreams, we imagine ourselves involved in inextricable woe, and enjoy at waking, the ecstasy of a deliverance from it.

As captive boys Cowed by the ruling rod, and haughty frowns Of pedagogues severe, from their hard tasks, If once dismissed, no limits can contain The tumult raised within their little breasts, But give a loose to all their frolic play: So from their kennel rush the joyous pack; 100 A thousand wanton gaieties express Their inward ecstasy, their pleasing sport Once more indulged, and liberty restored.

His senses were acute; he had never before felt with such gratification the warmth of the sun or known the ecstasy of motion.

She could tell a story in clear and lively, if not always correct and elegant English, and she could describe the ecstasies and agonies of passion in a way that seemed natural and convincing to an audience nurtured on French romans à longue haleine and heroic plays.

To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."

RINEHART, MARY ROBERTS. Lost ecstasy.

While touch'd to transport, Taste's responding tone Makes the rapt poet's ecstasies thine own; Ah! think that he, whose hand supremely skill'd, The heart's fine chords with deep vibration thrill'd, In stagnant silence and petrific gloom, Unconscious sleeps, the tenant of the tomb!

On the peak of one of its gables a little song sparrow, head tilted back and body a-tremble, trilled forth an ecstasy of song.

We find upon these mystic panels an ecstasy of adoration and a depth of fervour which are alien to the more sober spirit of Florence, combined with an almost infantine delight in pure bright colours, and in the decorative details of the miniaturist.

O, all comforters, All soothing things that bring mild ecstasy, Came with her coming, in her presence lived.

Neither could it break the ecstasy of Wednesday, that heavenly day.

"I continued for some time in a sort of dreaming ecstasy; but as soon as I collected my thoughts, I began to devise some scheme by which I could again have the happiness of seeing and conversing with the lovely Veenah.

She tried to recall the first ecstasy of joy at his home-coming.

Having unfortunately exhausted the English language on the subject of grass, I will not repeat any ecstasies upon that topic.

A deep sadness gradually gathered on his countenance, and his last words were spoken more in the tone of one who felt a new exaltation of suffering than of one who felt the new ecstasy of a lover.

Is it this that explains the extraordinary ecstasy which men experience on the battlefield, even amid all the horrorsan ecstasy so great that it calls them again and again to return?

My heart gave such an ecstasy of life to my veins at the thought, that for a moment I felt sick and faint, as I drew back from the window.

Nearly all of his music is sweet and tender, lapsing from his round breast like water over the smooth lip of a pool, then breaking farther on into a sparkling foam of melodious notes, which, glow with subdued enthusiasm, yet without expressing much of the strong, gushing ecstasy of the bobolink or skylark.

Little you dream what maddening ecstasies, What rich ideals haunt, by day and night, Alone, and in the crowd, even to the death, The servitors of that celestial court Where peerless Mary, sun-enthroned, reigns, In whom all Eden dreams of womanhood, All grace of form, hue, sound, all beauty strewn Like pearls unstrung, about this ruined world, Have their fulfilment and their archetype.

Their soulsfresher from God than are the souls of menwere a-quiver with joy, and their lips babbled to hide their ecstasies.

So in many religions fasting has been used as an agent for detaching the thoughts from the body and for inducing ecstasy.

Then, with Kirk lost in a dream of rapt worship and listening ecstasy beside him, he began to play.

he rasped out, masking his ecstasy as well as he could.

But with this torture was mingled not only the ecstasy of loving, but the fear of her daughter.

I never shall overcome the ecstasies of laughter which assail me when I see varieties of coal exhibited in tiny shop windows, set forth in high glass dishes, as we exploit chocolates at home.