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Locke was more cautious on the issue: "whether that, which we call Extasy, be not dreaming with the Eyes open, I leave to be examined." [
Sticky Wants to Grab 2009
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A while back, TCM ran “Extasy”, a 1933 Czech film with a very young, and totally nude, Hedy Lamarr.
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And let's not forget Chariots of Fire (from the studio perspective) and Werner Herzog's short masterpiece from 1974, The Great Extasy of the Woodcutter Steiner, about a young ski-jumper (sky-flyer, he calls him) who talks as if he walked right out of Woyzeck and makes his living crafting wooden objects by hand.
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Nevertheless, he was quite transported at this Assurance, and made me a thousand Protestations of his everlasting Love, in which was contain'd more Extasy and Rapture than I am able to repeat.
Exilius 2008
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Whispers I implor'd her Protection; a thousand extravagant Things I utter'd, as on my Knees I lay all trembling in a devout Extasy.
Exilius 2008
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The Priest being full of Joy and Extasy, could not contain from revealing to Clodius this extraordinary Favour of the Gods: But Clodius having more Wit than Devotion, interrogated the Priest much about it; and by the Description he gave, fancy'd it must needs be Almon, escap'd by some Stratagem of
Exilius 2008
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Extasy and Rapture, the Joys I then felt can neither be express'd nor imagin'd.
Exilius 2008
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Extasy, sexual lust, romantic love ... yeah, I'm happy, but it's my mind, not my heart.
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2001
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He was always ready “to leap up in Extasy; and dip ... [his] Pen in the Sun” (iv).
The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 Maximillian E. [Commentator] Novak
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Paradice, so elated with the Serenity of the Heavens, and the Beauties which every where entertained and rejoiced my Sight, that in Extasy I broke out into this grateful Soliloquy.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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