Take thou his likeness, only for a night, / and wear the boyish features that are thine; / and when the queen, in rapture of delight, / amid the royal banquet and the wine, / shall lock thee in her arms, and press her lips to thine, / then steal into her bosom, and inspire / through all her veins with unsuspected sleight / the poisoned sting of passion and desire."

O Nymphs! O Pan!" he shouted in rapture, and hurrying down to the plain he threw himself into Chloe's arms, so full of delight that he fell fainting to the ground.

The pianist's performance of a Haydn sonata threw the woman into a rapture bordering on frenzy.

For as the young people went by with their despatch-boxes, awfully glad to be free, proud too, dumbly, of stepping this famous pavement, joy of a kind, cheap, tinselly, if you like, but all the same rapture, flushed their faces.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deap sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more.

The mansion, gone for a century, once more reared its stately height to the raptured vision; every window ablaze with the splendour of many candles.