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Fits of longing for wandering come over the Welsh periodically, as they came over the Danes caused by scarcity of food and density of population, or by a sense of oppression and a yearning for freedom. An empty stomach sometimes, and sometimes a fiery imagination, sent a crowd of adventurers to new lands. And it is thus that every living nation is ever renewing its youth.
Yet who makes such a noise in the world as he does? put every thing off till to-morrow, like my Basil but can do more at the last moment than any man in England that is, if the fit seizes him for he does nothing but by fits has no application none says it would 'petrify him to a dunce. I never knew a man of genius who was not an idle dog."
Yes, she might have been his wife by this time, if he himself had not proved to her that she could never gain such power over him as would control his sudden fits of fury, or obtain mercy for any victim of his cruelty. The murder of Vindex and his nephew had been the death-blow of this hope.
Lansdowne had been plodding among musty law books and threading legal intricacies, with occasional interruptions, caused by fits of impatience and disgust at the detail and tedium of study, until he had at length fought his way through and placed himself in the front rank of his profession.
I hope 'Zekiel is going to prove himself worth all this trouble." The new coachman's countenance seemed frozen into a stolidity which did not alter. "I'm sure he'll try," replied his mother, "and Fanshaw's livery fits him to such a turn that it would have been flying in the face of Providence not to try him. Did you give orders to be met at this train, sir?" Mrs.
And the tears would stand in her angry eyes; her whole delicate frame would throb with fierce feeling. Gradually he learnt how to deal with these fits, even when they chilled him with a dread, a conviction he dared not analyse.
But by degrees they became in some measure more reconciled to them, from the frequency of their occurrence, or rather they felt less apprehension than formerly, as to their origin; understanding with surprise that they were only the effects of a simple quarrel, and excite from the inhabitants no more than a casual remark, although it is said that in fits of ungovernable passion, the most heinous crimes are consummated in these frantic revels.
As we are here using the word, an experience is "real" which fits in with, and does not contradict the totality of our experiences; which does not falsify our calculation or betray our expectancy.
Of late, he had laboured irregularly at verse; fits of active effort were followed by long intervals during which production seemed impossible.
It stood in particular at a very low ebb as I waited, an hour later, at the little north postern of the Castle, and, cowering within the shelter of the arch to escape the wind, debated whether his Majesty's energy would sustain him to the point of action, or whether he might not, in one of those fits of treacherous vacillation which had again and again marred his plans, send those to keep the appointment who would give a final account of me.
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