"Thrill" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Thrill'd with thy beauty and love in the wooded slope of the mountain, Here, great mother, I lie, thy child, with his head on thy bosom! Playful the spirits of noon, that rushing soft through thy tresses, Green-hair'd goddess! refresh me; and hark! as they hurry or linger, Fill the ...
— Poems of Coleridge • Coleridge, ed Arthur Symons
... A rose-flush tender, a thrill, a quiver, When golden gleams to the tree-tops glide; A flashing edge for the milk-white river, The beck, ...
— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various
... insipid, and the thought unknown; From truth and nature form the unerring test; 35 Be what is manly, chaste, and good the best! 'Tis not to ape the songsters of the groves, Through all the quiverings of their wanton loves; 'Tis not the enfeebled thrill, or warbled shake, The heart can strengthen, or the soul awake! 40 But where the force of energy is found When the sense rises on the wings of sound; When reason, with the charms of music twined, Through the enraptured ear informs the ...
— The Poetical Works of William Collins - With a Memoir • William Collins
... massacre begun on St. Bartholomew's Day was spreading with the speed of some foul contagion to the most distant parts of France, the tidings had been carried beyond its boundaries, and excited a thrill of delight, or a cry of execration, according to the character and sympathies of those to whom they came. Nowhere was the surprise greater, nor the joy more intense, than at Rome. Pope Gregory, like his predecessor, had been very sceptical respecting the ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird
... thy brow, my son! and I am chill, As to my bosom I have tried to press thee How was I wont to feel my pulses thrill, ...
— My Three Days in Gilead • Elmer Ulysses Hoenshal
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