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Extatic

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Ex`tat´ic
a.1.See Ecstatic, a.


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LET me seize thy Pen Sublime, Which paints in flowing dulcet Rhyme The melting Pow'r, the Magic Art, Th' extatic raptures of the Heart: (1-4) Read in the context of the Della Crusca-Anna Matilda correspondence, Robinson's title and first lines connote so strongly because her intertextual practice deliberately blurs the question of who "The Muse" might be.
Charles' s interests, however, comically contrast with Fanny's reverie in this scene: Charles then rouz'd me somewhat out of this extatic distraction, with a complaint softly murmur'd amidst a croud of kisses, at the position, not so favourable to his desires, in which I receiv'd his urgent insistence for admission.
Something In The Air In his Notice of Some Observations Made at the Medical Pneumatic Institution (1799), a text Beddoes wrote primarily to establish for his investors the path-breaking research into gases conducted at his newly founded Institute, he remarks on experiments then just completed: after the first moments of surprise it was impossible not to recognize the expressions of the most extatic pleasure.
 
 
 
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