Meaning of extasy | Babel Free

Examples

“[…] the ſweet youth, overpower'd with the extaſy, died away in my arms […]”

Fanny Hill

“There was merit in every drawing—in the least finished, perhaps the most; her style was spirited; but had there been much less, or had there been ten times more, the delight and admiration of her two companions would have been the same. They were both in extasies. A likeness pleases every body; and Miss Woodhouse’s performances must be capital.”

“Afraid almost to breathe, we English travellers surveyed with extasy this splendid landscape, so different from the sober hues and melancholy graces of our native scenery.”

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