The saints' days you speak of have long since fled to heaven with Astræa, and the cold piety of the age lacks fervor to recall them; only Peter left his key,the iron one of the two that "shuts amain,"and that is the reason I am locked up.

But with quite other sentiments the preparations for the fête were progressing in that ancient family of Giustiniani, where the day was awaited with an impatience which increased the fervor and the pomp of preparation, but was not otherwise manifested in any sign of undignified eagerness.

He appeals to reason rather than sense; denounces superstitions, while he rebukes sins; and kindles a profound fervor, based on the recognition of new truths.

This gave her an opportunity of seeing in what manner too many of the great world passed their time, and how small regard some of them pay to the marriage vow: everyday presented her with examples of husbands, who behaved with no more than a cold civility to their own wives, and carried the fervor of their addresses to those of other men; and of wives who seemed rather to glory in, than be ashamed of a train of admirers.

It is not the object of love which creates this fervor, but the mind which is capable of investing it with glories.

"Excuse my fervor in the praise of this man.

He does not expect the fervor of youthful passion in his young wife; but he finds what is far betterthe fearless confidence of one so innocent that she can scarcely believe in the existence of guilt....

A language was devised that was to express the fervor of the adorers who were suddenly allowed to penetrate into Olympus, and the strange, misapplied terms whereof seemed to the uninitiated the language of insanity.

" "I am heartily relieved to hear it," Jack cried, giving something too much fervor to his relief, for Vincent turned and looked at him in surprise, but it was too dark in the shadow of the clematis to see his face, and after a silence Vincent said: "Mamma has told you that the President is coming to Williamsburg to review Magruder's troops?"

Goethe, as a young man, had indulged such fervors; but in old age he had lost this effusiveness, or saw fit to restrain himself outwardly, while his kindly nature still glowed with its pristine fires.

They inspire to the highest and most exalted degree the patriotic fervor and love of country in the hearts of the people.

with what fervor I joined in his longings!

She left unemployed no fervor of entreaty, no depth of argument.

"I have possessed," said he to Imlac, "for five years the regulation of the weather, and the distribution of the seasons: the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command; I have restrained the rage of the Dog-star, and mitigated the fervor of the Crab.

Nè sotto l'arme già sentir gli parve Caldo o fervor come di foco intenso; Ma pur, se fosser vere fiamme o larve, Mal potè giudicar sì tosto il senso: Perchè repente, appena tocco, sparve Quel simulacro, e giunse un nuvol denso, Che portò notte e verno; e 'l verno ancora E l'ombra dileguossi in picciol'ora.

And yet with what fervor she had prayed to the good God that monsieur might go straight to Paradise!

"Marmion," "The Lady of the Lake," "Don Roderick," and "Rokeby" reflected his romantic fervor.

At the same time, austere men exerted themselves to rekindle the fervor of monastic life, re-established rigid rules in the cloister, and refilled the monasteries by their preaching and example.

He blindly reverenced, without ability fully to comprehend, her exalted religious fervor and the quietude of soul that it brought.

Our rival Roses warred for Sway For Sway, but named the name of Right; And Passion, scorning pain and death, Lent sacred fervor to the fight.

Our Woman's Prayer Meeting shows unusual fervor, and we are expecting to make this meeting felt in the community and church.

In a hundred ways, Beth, he spoke of womenwith that same fervor and beauty.

He was much subject to these kind of whimsical transports, and suffered the fervor of his imagination often to subdue the power of his reason; an instance of which we shall now relate.

The prince's voice seemed slightly louder; that, in a general way, was patent; no doubt the occasion warranted more fervor on his part.

As neither individuals nor societies can be possessed of more than one overpowering emotion at a time, the devotion to property naturally weakened religious fervor.