18. At times the black volume of clouds overhead seemed rent asunder by flashes of lightning.
19. The whole figure and air, good and amiable otherwise, might be called flabby and irresolute.
20. I have heard Coleridge talk, with eager energy, two stricken hours, and communicate no meaning whatsoever to any individual.
21. The word conscience has become almost confined, in popular use, to the moral sphere.
22. You may ramble a whole day together, and every moment discover something new.
23. She had grown up amidst the liberal culture of Henry's court a bold horsewoman, a good shot, a graceful dancer, a skilled musician, an accomplished scholar.
24. Her aims were simple and obvious,—to preserve her throne, to keep England out of war, to restore civil and religious order.
Fair name might he have handed down,
Effacing many a stain of former crime.
26. Of the same grandeur, in less heroic and poetic form, was the patriotism of Peel in recent history.