The 'refined voluptuousness and impassioned sombreness' of Giorgione's painting have instituted a comparison between him and Lord Byron as a poet.
It planted a sublime, impassioned love of Christ in the heart, inflaming all its affections.
These hateful scenes had become the impassioned delight of all classes, from the Emperors to the "vile plebs" of Rome.
The impassioned love and joy and gratitude of her soul struggling for expression, she burst into a flood of tears.
Greek, with an impassioned aspiration after a moral courage which he felt almost beyond his comprehension, "would that I had such faith.
That was so awful a fate, that it did seem as though all grown-ups ought to league together in an impassioned effort to give youth as free a choice as possible.
A strange speech, and delivered with the impassioned mien and voice of the Pythoness.
Even now, as I look down upon you, my heart is throbbing, my veins are tingling; but I must not touch you with my finger, or tell you of my impassioned love.
It is clear, then, that in his treatment of comradeship, or the impassioned love of man for man, Whitman has struck a keynote, to the emotional intensity of which the modern world is unaccustomed.
I urged, somewhat anti-climatically after my impassioned harangue, its discomfort.
Aurora Leigh So Wordsworth:-- Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, it is the impassioned expression which is on the face of all science.
If an actress in moments of impassioned declamation is detected arranging her draperies, her art no longer carries conviction.
When Wordsworth said that poetry is inevitable, he meant the metre no less than the thought; he wished to convey the fact that the impassioned mood breaks into melody of word as the full heart breaks into song.
Among artists cannot be reckoned One born with poet's heart in sad eclipse Because unmatched with poet's tongue; Whose song impassioned struggles to his lips, Yet dies, alas!
Had it been otherwise, with her impassioned nature, she might have sunk into an agony of despair, or raved in the delirium of brain-fever.
He certainly never acted with more impassioned earnestness--though never once, for a single instant, however, overstepping the boundaries of nature.
Something put it into my head that it was Sallitt, and I began an impassioned shouting.
But to-day--distinctly--breaking in with brawling impassioned suddenness upon my consciousness.
And my wild heart answered: 'There has been an impassioned stampede, northward and westward, of all the tribes of Man.
He had just finished his little harangue, whatever that is, and was putting in a few choice gestures, when the old man came around from behind the rain-water barrel with a shotgun, and told the impassioned swain that he had better skip.
Judge Blair sang in that impassioned way of his, which makes a confirmed invalid reconciled to death, and I danced.
She delivered an impassionedharangue on the subject of men.
Some instinctive wisdom made him resist David's impassioned appeals to invest his money in The Sioux Hotel.
If they are the latter, let us have done with them, let us drive them from the state, together with lovers and all other impassioned persons.
The ideas are very unequal and their course very jerky till we come to the second subject (D major), which swells out into a broad stream of impassioned melody.
All the impassioned scenes of her brief expenence seemed to revive with added emotion at that moment, and those scenes which had been without emotion during enactment had emotion then.
London was impassioned by the question of Farll's funeral; a few hours would decide if England was to be shamed among the nations: and yet the town seemed to pursue its jog-trot way exactly as usual.
Alice interrupted his impassioned discourse by putting the loaded toasting-fork into his hands, "while I make the tea?
It charmed the fancy of Rousseau, and, by a curious irony, he inflamed by his impassioned argument that war for freedom which is to the undying glory of France.
Pitt's second speech, of which only a brief impassioned fragment remains, was delivered on April 27th (Parl.
I felt that he must not be curbed, that his impassioned interest might blossom and bloom into genius if it were given a proper outlet.
