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.

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.

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."

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.

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