estro

• “What she strives for, she says, is "estro" - Italian for spark.”

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• “‘And how do you know that Emil will not have enemies, even if this “estro” is found in him?’”

  The Torrents of Spring

• “Frau Lenore remarked to him that he had, to be sure, possessed such an ‘estro’ — and yet ...”

  The Torrents of Spring

• “P. que dose aca en la tierra nu estro senõr Jesuchristo?”

  Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.

• “Your dear letter has brought me still nearer to you in the crisis of the estro poetico, which the "Hungaria" [One of Liszt's symphonic poems.] brought forth in me; and, thanks to this good influence, I hope you will not be dissatisfied with the composition.”

  Letters

• “To tell the truth, his arguments were somewhat feeble; he kept expatiating for the most part on the necessity, before all things, of possessing '_un certo estro d'inspirazione_' -- a certain force of inspiration!”

  The Torrents of Spring

• “In this light he may be said to bring to his subject not one mind, but several; he becomes not one poet, but many; for each actor in his drama has a share, and an important share, in the lyrical _estro_ to which he gives birth.”

  Rookwood

• “He was first giddy, as after a deep draught of kindling spirit; this passed off, but the spirit was still in his veins -- the _estro_ was working in his brain.”

  Rookwood

• “M. Savarin, wit, critic, and poet, with his pleasant, sensible wife; and a few others, who, the M.estro confided to me in a whisper, were authorities in the press.”

  The Parisians — Volume 01

• “The third Canto is in advance about one hundred stanzas; but the failure of the two first has weakened my _estro_, and it will neither be so good as the two former, nor completed, unless I get a little more _riscaldato_ in its behalf.”

  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals

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