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Updated: May 13, 2025
In the first number of The Rambler, Johnson shews how attractive to an author is the form of publication which he was himself then adopting: 'It heightens his alacrity to think in how many places he shall have what he is now writing read with ecstacies to-morrow. Yet he said 'the inhabitants of Lichfield were the most sober, decent people in England. Ante, ii. 463.
"Say rather," retorted the cardinal, with a smile, "Porcos ante Margaritam, swine before the pearl." The whole little court in cassocks went into ecstacies over this play upon words. The cardinal felt a little relieved; he was quits with Coppenole, he also had had his jest applauded.
It may be questioned whether, even though the visions did relate to some person other than the members of the Holy Family, the fact would have been admitted since it would have been attributed to unworthiness on the part of the saint. They were practically compelled to include God and Christ in their ecstacies to prove their respectability.
Free transit is provided on the railway for the happy couple, the wedding-guests, and all the stage-properties. And then they visit themselves in waxwork, and go into ecstacies over the stolid representations of their life and their furniture, and they walk about the town a sort of grown-up school-procession and go home to thrill the wide-eyed village with tales of the wonderful city.
No sooner were the ecstacies of the captain over than Philip introduced himself to him, and informed him of his appointment. "Oh! you are the first mate of the Vrow Katerina. Sir, you are a very fortunate man. Next to being captain of her, first mate is the most enviable situation in the world." "Certainly not on account of her beauty," observed Philip; "she may have many other good qualities."
I am just now quite astonished! I hope all is right! but I have a strange turn to acquaint you with. Mr. Williams and Mrs. Jewkes came to me both together; he in ecstacies, she with a strange fluttering sort of air. Well, said she, Mrs. Pamela, I give you joy! I give you joy! Let nobody speak but me! Then she sat down, as out of breath, puffing and blowing.
Lovers have been drinking from perennial fountains for a million years, and their ecstacies are rising still. Pure love is as endless and infinite as time and space, and its mystery is deep to these shining throngs of Heaven who look into one another's faces with untrammeled emotions.
His ecstacies are rapid and, therefore, soon over. The level places in his sermons are rather heavy, and, at times, uninteresting. It is only when the thermometer is rising that you enjoy him, and only when he reaches the climax and explodes, that you fall back and ask for water and a fan.
The splendors and symphonies and the ecstacies of a higher world are with us now in the rudimentary organs of eye and ear and heart. Much we have to do, much we have to love, much we have to hope for; and our "joy is the grace we say to God." "When I think upon God," said Haydn to Carpani, "my heart is so full of joy that the notes leap from my pen." Says Gibbons:
But those other things, the spiritual passions, the ecstacies, the vague sensing of the terribleness of the creative powers, to them always he made no response. And the crude philosophizing of the forest theologians, their fiercely simple dualism God and Satan, thunder and lightning, the eternal war in the heavens, the eternal lake of fire it meant nothing to him.
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