impelled

AFTER a long interval, I am again impelled by the restless spirit within me to continue my narration; but I must alter the mode which I have hitherto adopted.

II.8 1826

Yet, when she rose from the table, an urgent desire to keep him within call impelled her to pause.

Rosa Mundi and Other Stories 1910

On the contrary, the individualising animus which there found expression impelled him to raise more formidable barriers about man, and to turn the ring-fence which secured him from intrusion into a high wall which cut off his view.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

On the contrary, the individualising animus which there found expression impelled him to raise more formidable barriers about man, and to turn the ring-fence which secured him from intrusion into a high wall which cut off his view.

Robert Browning 1892

My situation here is indeed a delightful situation; but I feel what I have lost -- feel it deeply -- it recurs more often and more painfully than I had anticipated, indeed so much so, that I scarcely ever feel myself impelled, that is to say, pleasurably impelled to write to Poole.

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

My situation here is indeed a delightful situation; but I feel what I have lost -- feel it deeply -- it recurs more often and more painfully than I had anticipated, indeed so much so, that I scarcely ever feel myself impelled, that is to say, pleasurably impelled to write to Poole.

Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

But where Swedenborg uses a vaguely deterministic vocabulary to speak of creaturely activity (stating that bees and silkworms are "impelled" to behave in certain ways), Blake's Oothoon chooses to speak of such activity in terms of multiplicitous "joys" and "loves" (3: 6, 8, 11-12), terms carrying connotations of freedom rather than coercion or enslavement.

Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001

The Axioms of Religion, who insisted truly born-again believers are "impelled" to be part of the church.

Biblical Recorder 2009

A vessel of considerably greater size than this, but of the same class -- impelled, that is, by one bank of oars only -- is indicated by certain coins, which have been regarded by some critics as Phoenician, by others as belonging to Cilicia. [

History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857

My situation here is indeed a delightful situation; but I feel what I have lost ” feel it deeply ” it recurs more often and more painfully than I had anticipated, indeed so much so, that I scarcely ever feel myself impelled, that is to say, pleasurably impelled to write to Poole.

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847