That his understanding has no brilliancy, his feelings no ardour, and his voice no expression." "Add to which," cried Marianne, "that he has neither genius, taste, nor spirit. His genius and ardour had seemed to foresee and to command his prosperous path. Norris, however, had gone home and taken down two old prayer-books of her husband with that idea but, upon examination, the ardour of generosity went off. It damped my new-born ardour, to find that ardour so difficult of communication to her. (Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) You can see, young gentleman, that not a scrap of the ardour with which I serve my country has been shot away. To have a full stomach, to doze lazily in the sunshine-such things were remuneration in full for his ardours and toils, while his ardours and tolls were in themselves self-remunerative.ĭon't cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause forbear to waste them on trite transient objects. (Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge.
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