Word: passion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wondrous passion! Feeling unaccountable...
...excited to stay under roof; he took his way to the forest. His busy brain was engaged with castles in the air. He framed declarations of passion, and committed them to memory; "For," thought he, "I am so bashful that I could not find a word to say in her presence, unless I had thought it out beforehand." As he came into a little open space, he saw a maid before him; she turned with a cry, and fled. He followed her, and soon caught her, only to see her fall fainting. He knelt by her side...
Before Yung reached the cave, his passion for Loe was almost quite transferred to the stranger; and when, after a vigorous sprinkling with cold water from the brook, she opened her eyes, his enthralment was complete...
...whispered Tue passionately, and fled. Her brain was in a tumult. Joy, passion, hope, foreboding, were mingled in a chaotic mass of thought. But as she approached her father's hut she could think more clearly. What had she done? She had expressed her preference for a mere stranger; one of whose very name she was ignorant. In vain she assured herself that his conduct at the glen proved him good and noble. "A single act is no basis for determining character," her judgment replied; "it may be quite in keeping with the actor's character; it may be merely...
...passion of self-sacrifice...