The seeds of my
ardour were the sparks from that divine flame whereby more than a thousand have kindled; I speak of the "Aeneid," mother to me and nurse to me in poetry.
He was exactly formed to engage Marianne's heart, for with all this, he joined not only a captivating person, but a natural
ardour of mind which was now roused and increased by the example of her own, and which recommended him to her affection beyond every thing else.
Fairfax had begged a holiday for Adele, because she had a cold; and, as Adele seconded the request with an
ardour that reminded me how precious occasional holidays had been to me in my own childhood, I accorded it, deeming that I did well in showing pliability on the point.
Some of them struck me as singularly odd compounds of
ardour and flatness; commencing in strong feeling, and concluding in the affected, wordy style that a schoolboy might use to a fancied, incorporeal sweetheart.
I don't know," returned the man, clapping his hands to his mouth nevertheless, and vociferating in a surprising heat and with the greatest
ardour, "Spies
Micawber was accompanied by myself, and by little Wilkins and his sister, and by the twins, they did not receive him with that
ardour which he might have expected, being so newly released from captivity.
As I walked by her side that May morning, I was only conscious of her voice and her exquisite girlhood; for though she talked with the APLOMB of a woman of the world, a passionate candour and simple
ardour in her manner would have betrayed her, had her face not plainly declared her the incarnation of twenty.
When Rowena perceived the Knight Templar's eyes bent on her with an
ardour, that, compared with the dark caverns under which they moved, gave them the effect of lighted charcoal, she drew with dignity the veil around her face, as an intimation that the determined freedom of his glance was disagreeable.
It was the creation of such worlds as these that seemed to Dorian Gray to be the true object, or amongst the true objects, of life; and in his search for sensations that would be at once new and delightful, and possess that element of strangeness that is so essential to romance, he would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to be really alien to his nature, abandon himself to their subtle influences, and then, having, as it were, caught their colour and satisfied his intellectual curiosity, leave them with that curious indifference that is not incompatible with a real
ardour of temperament, and that, indeed, according to certain modern psychologists, is often a condition of it.
Amina struck a few chords and then broke into a song, which she sang with so much
ardour that she was quite overcome, and sank gasping on a pile of cushions, tearing open her dress as she did so to give herself some air.
There the Tin-soldier lay, and felt a heat that was truly terrible; but whether he was suffering from actual fire, or from the
ardour of his passion, he did not know.
We had here the convenience of improving the
ardour and piety of our new converts, and, at the same time, of leading more into the way of the true religion: and indeed our success exceeded the utmost of our hopes; we had in a short time great numbers whom we thought capable of being admitted to the sacraments of baptism and the mass.
You must know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round) gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such
ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property; and to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillageland to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many of them as he could get.
He desired that a woman should come to his arms with an attractive willingness, if not with
ardour.
The other animals, in their animal
ardour, jostled me to get a nearer view.
