Nevertheless, like all fervid writing, the task was done in less time than usual, and if the spelling differed from Mrs Glegg's,—why, she belonged, like himself, to a generation with whom spelling was a matter of private judgment.
Plymdale, her native sharpness softened by a fervid sense that she was taking a correct view.
Against certain facts he was helpless: against Will Ladislaw's existence, his defiant stay in the neighborhood of Lowick, and his flippant state of mind with regard to the possessors of authentic, well-stamped erudition: against Dorothea's nature, always taking on some new shape of ardent activity, and even in submission and silence covering fervid reasons which it was an irritation to think of: against certain notions and likings which had taken possession of her mind in relation to subjects th
When she made remarks to this edifying effect, she had a firm little frown on her brow, which yet did not hinder her face from looking benevolent, and her words which came forth like a procession were uttered in a fervid agreeable contralto.
Casaubon had often dwelt on some explanation or questionable detail of which Dorothea did not see the bearing; but such imperfect coherence seemed due to the brokenness of their intercourse, and, supported by her faith in their future, she had listened with fervid patience to a recitation of possible arguments to be brought against Mr.
It may be that among them a more fervid Keats, a more ethereal Shelley, has already published numbers the world will willingly remember.