I remember quite well that before I married Herbert he often suffered from the oddest moods of depression.
But the Psalter would not reflect all the moods of the devout soul, unless it had some strains of unmingled joy.
There are moodsand there are scenes in which it is profanation to utter the deep music which may be sounding on perpetually in the heart.
This noble close of the Psalter rings out one clear note of praise, as the end of all the many moods and experiences recorded in its wonderful sighs and songs.
Adrian seemed particularly so; he had had his gloomy moods before that but now they passed away entirely.
Not only was Tommy attentive in such matters as rugs and cushions, but he made definite efforts to fit his speech and his moods to her.
Hilary was fond of his boys, and was capable of entering into their youthful moods with a sort of intimate aloofness that the boys found very winning.
How well he recognized her thoughts and moods in every page of the story!
If she had been accustomed to self-analysis, she herself might have been surprised to see how widely her present moods differed from those which had dominated her when she lived at Maple Cottage.
Lettice, as we know, had admitted into her heart a feeling of sympathetic tenderness for Alan, which, under other circumstances, she would have accepted as worthy to dominate her life and dictate its moods and duties.
She had remained single without growing morose, and her sweet and gentle moods endeared her to all who came to know her.
I am in one of my moods of wholesale impatience with all fiction and all verging on it, reading instead, with rapture, Fountainhall's Decisions.
But in spite of all these causes of pleasure, his letters showed that his old invincible spirit of inward cheerfulness was beginning not infrequently to give way to moods of depression and overstrained feeling.
The importunity of these moodswas no doubt due to some physical premonition that his vital powers, so frail from the cradle and always with so cheerful a courage overtaxed, were near exhaustion.
He saw things as neither Slav nor Latin nor Teuton had seen them before; the touch of things aroused in himmoods dissimilar from those that had been aroused in anyone before.
Other moods came to Wagner, but never again that mood of rapturous self-effacement.
You get here all my thoughts and opinions, always irresponsible and often contradictory or mutually exclusive, all my moods and vapours, all the varying reactions to environment of this jelly which is I.
With me, moments of headstrong passion alternate with moods of perfectly immobile self-introspection.
There were moods when Trafford would, as people say, pull himself together, and struggle with his gnawing discontent.
I find it hard to trace the accumulation of moods and feelings that led Trafford and Marjorie at last to make their extraordinary raid upon Labrador.
The most buoyant of optimists has moments of self-mockery, and the hardiest believer in ideal truth moods in which poetry seems the phantom and prose the fact.
There is little here to recall the characteristic moods of his first years of desolate widowhood--the valiant Stoicism, the acceptance of the sombre present, the great forward gaze upon the world beyond.
That most despicable of all the unworthy moods which cloud a Christian's soul assuredly waits for us on the threshold of every work, unless we are fortified with this grace of magnanimity.
Christianity possesses the noblest words in the language; its literature overflows with terms expressive of the greatest and happiest moods which can fill the soul of man.
But more daily work than ever has fallen to me to do the present season, and though I am well and contented, my best moods seem to shun me.
I went back into the house, afflicted with a passion of mingled pity and distress impossible to describe, yet on my short way across the garden was attacked by other moods in turn, each more real and bitter than its predecessor.
They stirred moodsalready in me, that is, and did not introduce entirely new ones; for every mind conceals ancestral deposits that have been cultivated in turn along the whole line of its descent.
Horace is the poet of the lighter and gayermoods of love.
In these and similar passages we note the power of expressing the varying moods of passion by varied effects of metre.
He has more affinity with the ordinary thoughts and moods of men than either of the older poets.
Shall I never rise to him, save in the moods of an hour?
It seemed to him that in their brief acquaintance he had seen her in almost all the moods there are, from bitter gloom to the irrepressible gaiety of a little child.
He has turned away from physical beauty, in which man can no longer believe, using the body refined almost to the delicacy and transparency of a shell, in which the soul may shine, or at least be seen, in all its moods of happiness or terror.
Not for them exactingness, caprice, the gay or grave analysis of love and lover: such moods charm alone in lovely women, and even in them bring risks along.
All we actually see are the moods of nine separate days--spread over what precise period of time we are not clearly shown, but it was certainly a year.
The day will come when the graver moods of the human heart will sometimes demand satisfaction as they demanded and found satisfaction in Heraclitus and Jeremiah.
There are moods in which the devout soul dwells on its own calm blessedness and on God, its source, more directly than on the gift which brings it.
But surely our own experience of the effect of circumstances and moods on our firmest beliefs gives us parallels to John's doubts.
Miss Heath had seen many moods on that charming face; now the expression in the wide-open, brown eyes caused her own to fill with sudden tears.
Leave me alone when I have my dark moods on, Prissie.
She was a creature of moods and she was almost absolutely without self-control; and yet nature had been kind to Maggie, giving her great beauty of form and face and a character which a right training would have rendered noble.
We all have our moods in which we are ready to say that the first unconscious, unpremeditated pleasure that comes of a bit of literature is the only result worth having.
There are no doubt moods when the mother is glad to get rid of her offspring, the wife of her husband, the lover of his mistress, and when it is not well to keep them together.
It is only from the reader accustomed to similar reflective moods that I expect acceptance, or even tolerance, of these musings: the man of action will pass them impatiently by.
Even in music we can trace these tendencies: there is music that humbly follows the moods of man, and music whose serenely indifferent patterns compel the dancing attendance of those moods.
Besides, he had not the money that would have let him live at ease among blue china, books wonderfully bound, and men and women as strange as the moods it would have pleased him to induce.
There aremoods whose consciousness that essence, perfume, colour, is needed to intensify.
And many moods flit by while they are silent, and myriad souls agitate the blood in the veins of those motionless hands.
And when they were in certainmoods there was no withstanding them; so a procession headed by Mrs. Stamford and closed by Andy, each person bearing a plate, actually did creep with caution through the French window of the dining-room.
Don’t be foolish, Dick,” said his mother, who actually enjoyed his jokes because they showed his frequent moodsof sullen discontent had lifted for the time being.
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