The general and successful resistance of America, the conquest of Burgoyne, and a war in France, were treated in parliament as the dreams of a discontented opposition, or a distempered imagination.
Characters like these naturally breed in the putrefaction of distempered times, and after fattening on the disease, they perish with it, or, impregnated with the stench, retreat into obscurity.
Several times they cried murder, sometimes fire; but it was easy to perceive that it was all distraction and the complaints of distressed and distempered people.
The poor distempered man, all this while, being as well diseased in his brain as in his body, stood still like one amazed.
I panted for enterprises beyond my childish exploits, and formed distempered dreams of future action.
It raised no pity and compassion in him; it was simply some new stimulus to the one idea of his distempered brain.
The constant apprehension of danger made him watchful, and his distempered imagination made him fancy that every sound was the footstep of his enemy.
The light of heaven appears stained with yellow to the distempered sight of the one, and the fairest actions have the form of crimes in the venomed imagination of the other.
That such was his distempered state appeared presently plainly enough in his actions.
I cannot but admire, that any should go with their distempered friends and relatives to the afflicted children to know what these distempered friends ail; whether they are not bewitched; who it is that afflicts them; and the like.
The wrath of heaven was behind them, and they rattled past my grandfather like the distempered phantoms that hurry through the dreams of dying men.
There may occasionally be an individual, who from station, distempered mind, or the encouragement of chimerical ideas of glory, quits the theatre of life with at least the appearance of pleasure in his triumphs.
If such there be in reality, if this rapture of departing glory be anything more than the deception of a distempered excitement, the subject of its exhibition is to be greatly pitied.
I struck my eyes till the light flashed from them, in hopes that my senses had been imposed upon by distempered vision.
Do not let your senses be imposed upon by a distempered imagination," said I; "there is no reality in the things you have told XXXX me.
Those holy or unholy suggestions suddenly injected, would by the world be set down as the hallucinations of a distempered imagination.
We have no space in this short memoir to attempt the drawing a line between convictions of sin and the terrors of a distempered brain.
The Christian dares not attribute his intense feelings to a distempered brain.
But Catullus is too genuine and sincere a man, too natural in his enjoyments, and too healthy in all his moods, to be taken as an example of this distempered type of genius.
No distempered fancies or regrets, no vague longings for some unattainable rapture, coloured the natural aspect which the world presented to his eyes and mind.
The extravagant surmises of a distempered jealousy can never be dignified with that character.
The airy phantoms that flit before thedistempered imaginations of some of its adversaries would quickly give place to the more substantial forms of dangers, real, certain, and formidable.
Or are they the inflammatory ravings of incendiaries or distempered enthusiasts?
Both these rooms had walls distemperedin a green tint, and were fitted and desked in pitchpine.
The whole room, with its distempered walls of an uncomfortable green colour, in spite of several respectable pieces of mahogany furniture, seemed to be the secret retreat of a graceless and mean indigence.
I thought in you to find A balm, to cure my muchdistempered mind.
Thou seest me much distempered in my mind; Pulled back, and then pushed forward to be kind.
I would bring balm, and pour it in your wounds, Cure your distempered mind, and heal your fortunes.
There is no mortal ill the distemperedbrain may not cause.
Indeed, there were times when he was so distempered by passion that homicide seemed but an act of justice, and suicide a legitimate relief.
I was still asleep, and this was merely a tormenting vision; or madness had seized me, and the darkness that environed and the hunger that afflicted me existed only in my own distempered imagination.
It was a distempered imagination both in him and in me that had given birth to this opinion, since the terms of his narrative, impartially considered, were far from implying that catastrophe.
Meanwhile, my silence was supplied by the suggestions of his own distempered fancy.
Perhaps his mind was too distempered or too imbecile even for that: perhaps the shock of his fall and his disappointed rage might have quite suspended the use of his faculties.
In addition to this disturbance, he was often startled by moans and wild expressions, coming from the lips of the sleeping knight, showing him that even slumber brought no repose to his distempered spirit.
The heroic notions that had sustained her for weeks were vanishing before this pleasant-faced maid and the dreary, distempered hall.
He had never been inside the little distempered hall before, and it struck a feeling of chill into him.
And she found herself inside a dimly lighted, distempered hall, face to face with a kindly looking maid, who was greeting her with the air of conventional welcome she had been told to assume towards strangers.
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