23 Verbs to Use for the Word inspires

" While the young victor, as she falt'ring spoke, With fix'd attention, and with ardent look, 110 Hung on her tender glance, that love inspires, The rage of conquest yields to milder fires.

THE LAST FLOWER Rich the first flower's graces be, But dearer far the last to me; My spirit feels renewal sweet, Of all my dreams hope or desire The hours of parting oft inspire

" "Do so, Kate, and your good angel will doubtless inspire in me a suitable response.

Jealousy, they found further, "is practically unknown in Abyssinia," "If jealousy is manifested occasionally by women we must not deceive ourselves regarding the nature of this feeling; when an Abyssinienne envies the love another inspires she is jealous only of the comfort which that love may insure for the other" (II., Chap. V.).

Others, whom fear Inspires with self-preserving wiles, beneath The bodies of the slain for shelter creep.

While she was thinking that she was looking particularly well and femininely attractive, he was pitying her as a forlorn creature, who could never inspire love and ought to be treated with consideration, much as one tries to hide by an effusive show of courtesy the repulsion deformity inspires.

i. 412. 'Unusual sweetness purer joys inspires.' 394.

"Should he advance, his cause is just, And blood will mingle with the dust, But heaven forbid our power should be O'erwhelmed to give him victory; Though strong his arm, and wild his ire, And vengeance keen his heart inspire.

This hath led Mr. Pope into a great impropriety in the beginning of his Messiah: 'O thou my voice inspire, Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire!'

A fractur'd limb, a conflagrating fire, A name or fortune lost his tongue inspire: From house to house where'er misfortunes press, Like Fate, he roams, and revels in distress;

Maiden, for thee I'd tune the lyre; Might minstrelsy my song inspire; Could I a gifted offering bring, I'd boldly sweep each silken string, And wake a sweet and thrilling strain, Thy heart would echo back again.

Would some kind Muse my heart inspire, With the poetic heaven-born fire, That did in olden times belong To gifted bards, of ancient song.

He had not sailed more than three leagues, before they discovered a large ship, which they attacked with all the intrepidity that necessity inspires, and, happily, found it laden with excellent provisions.

At the end of one of those locks was the throbbing heart of Barton Booth, which he had completely lost in watching the auburn hair and the poetic movements of the coryphée: "But now the flying fingers strike the lyre, The sprightly notes the nymph inspire.

Here's nothing but a pile of wretchednesse; A branch that every way is shooke at roote And would (I think) even fall before you now, But that Divinity which props it up Inspires it full of comfort, since the Cause My father suffers for gives a full glory To his base fetters of Captivity.

Fain would I wake the consecrated lyre, And sing the sentiments thou didst inspire!

O princely face and fayre, that lightens all the ayre, Would God my eyes kind fire might life and soule inspire.

Still may that strain the patriot's soul inspire, And still this injur'd race her spirit fire.

Let cavillers deny That brutes have reason; sure 'tis something more, 'Tis Heaven directs, and stratagems inspires, Beyond the short extent of human thought.

Prometheus, were he here, would cast away His Adam, and refuse a soul to clay; And either would thy noble work inspire, Or think it warm enough, without his fire.

The first was a picture of a beautiful young woman, nude, and sleeping in the midst of roses, while angels watching her inspire rosy dreams of life and love.

Our youth were trained in English schools to classical learning and good manners; but no scholarshipgreat as we believe its efficacy to becan either inspire or supply, the daring originality and noble pride of genius, to which, by some mysterious law of nature, the love of country and a national spirit seem to be absolutely necessary.

"If there is a feeling allied to devotion, it is that which such a scene of sublimity as this we have just witnessed inspires, and yet that feeling is not devotion.

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  inspires