" The river narrowed suddenly, and the scenery became bolder, but neither Eve nor her father expressed the rapture that Grace expected.

Long had our dull forefathers slept supine, Nor felt the raptures of the tuneful Nine; 10 Till Chaucer first, the merry bard, arose, And many a story told in rhyme and prose.

Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture.

"I am answered," he cried, scarcely able to contain his rapture, and straining her to his bosom.

He shares Wordsworth's rapture in the life of nature, and Browning's interest in his fellow-men; he has Shelley's belief in the inner meaning of love, and much of Keats's worship of beauty, and he expresses this in an original and lyrical prose of quite peculiar and haunting beauty.

Yet Northward with an equal mind I steer my course, and leave behind The rapture of the Southern skies, The wooing of the Southern wind.

Blondine I wandered through a careless world Deceived when not deceiving, And never gave an idle heart The rapture of believing.

My old rapture and my youth's delight I can regain only when I think of that part of Gautier which is now incarnate in me.

"Don't you remember the raptures Mrs. Mortimer used to have over their Italian courier, and her funny description of him?

Down by the Broomielaw I found a new rapture in the smell of tar and cordage, and the queer foreign scents in my uncle's warehouse.

He must brave the ridicule of the profane to taste the raptures which his soul loved.

" ZAIDA'S INCONSTANCY O fairest Zaida, thou whose face brings rapture to mine eyes!

It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue, when he is discharged from the labor of uniting two incongruous styles, when he is at liberty to indulge his choral raptures without reserve, that he rises even above himself.

In crowds around thee gaze the admiring swains, 30 And guard in silence the enchanted plains; Drop the still tear, or breathe the impassion'd sigh, And drink inebriate rapture from thine eye.

'Tis some celestiall rapture of the minde, No earthlie harmonic is of this kinde.

I shall never forget the rapture of fever patients over a bunch of bright-coloured flowers.

Never again shall I recapture the careless rapture that came with the vision of the yellow cap flaming above the black beard, of the Herculean frame and the mighty bared arms, and all the godlike apparition of the master.

A Fribbler is one who professes Rapture and Admiration for the Woman to whom he addresses, and dreads nothing so much as her Consent.

Thus in this very pretty impression, as it may almost be called, of an ancient gem; So playful Love on Ida's flowery sides With ribbon-rein the indignant lion guides; Pleased on his brindled back the lyre he rings, And shakes delirious rapture from the strings; Slow as the pausing monarch stalks along, Sheathes his retractile claws, and drinks the song.

HELENA Love, terrestrial bliss to capture, Two in noble union mates; But to wake celestial rapture, He a precious three creates.

It fled away The rapture of that calm untroubled vision.

If, she said to herself, they got no raptures out of life, at least they got along without friction.

His was an intensely affectionate nature, and they had often heard these same raptures before.

The various sounds and sights, that met the ear and eye, in rapid succession, still farther worked on his feelings, and heightened his raptures.

His eyes held that hidden rapture that only Dong-Yung and the foreign-born priest had seen.