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Updated: June 19, 2025
I often plan the pleasant life we might lead, strengthening each other in the power of self-denial, that hallowed and glowing devotion which the past Saints of God often attained to." Now a curious and interesting thing is revealed by this correspondence. These religious fervours and depressions come on the moment Charlotte leaves Haworth and disappear as soon as she returns.
So kindly had nature tempered her disposition, that already she had been able to outlive those fervours of instinct which often make the middle life of an unwedded woman one long repining; but her womanly sympathies remained. And at present there was going forward under her own roof, within her daily observation, a comedy, a drama, which had power to excite all her disinterested emotions.
Who can calculate their effect on an emotional race? And they no longer confine their influence to things spiritual. They, too, have caught the modern disease of politics for the million. And the supreme appeal is to youth plastic and impressionable, aflame with fervours of the blood that can be conjured, by heady words, into fervours infinitely more dangerous to themselves and their country.
A Person that is crazed, tho' with Pride or Malice, is a Sight very mortifying to Human Nature; but when the Distemper arises from any indiscreet Fervours of Devotion, or too intense an Application of the Mind to its mistaken Duties, it deserves our Compassion in a more particular Manner. Devotion, when it does not lie under the Check of Reason, is very apt to degenerate into Enthusiasm.
There on the downs the finest and liveliest are at their bidding ready to fly through them like hosts of angels. He spoke somewhat in that strain, either to relieve Cecilia or prepare the road for Nevil, not in his ordinary style; on the contrary, with a swing of enthusiasm that seemed to spring of ancient heartfelt fervours.
Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.'-ESTHER iv. 10-17; v. 1-3. To turn to it after the fervours of prophets and the continual recognition of God in history which marks the other historical books, is like coming down from heaven to earth, as Ewald says.
Paraphrased by Johnson in The Vanity of Human Wishes, at the lines beginning: 'Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions and a will resigned. Brocklesby sitting by me. He fell to repeating Juvenal's ninth satire; but I let him see that the province was mine. Piozzi Letters, ii. 274. Johnson, on his way to Scotland, 'changed horses, he wrote, 'at Darlington, where Mr.
There on the downs the finest and liveliest are at their bidding ready to fly through them like hosts of angels. He spoke somewhat in that strain, either to relieve Cecilia or prepare the road for Nevil, not in his ordinary style; on the contrary, with a swing of enthusiasm that seemed to spring of ancient heartfelt fervours.
Much of her apparel had slipped away from her in the fervours of revivalist anecdote, and while she hunted for gloves and reticule officiously helped by the younger girls Robert crossed over to Catherine. 'You lifted us on to your own high places! he said, bending down to her; 'I shall carry your story with me through the fells.
I have recovered, but feel a stupor that makes me indifferent to the hopes and fears of this life. I sometimes wish to introduce a religious turn of mind; but habits are strong things, and my religious fervours are confined, alas! to some fleeting moments of occasional solitary devotion,
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