A noble and puissant nation [puissant = with power, might]
A novel and perplexing course
A numerous company
A painful and disconcerting deformity
A partial disenchantment
A passage of extraordinary daring
A patchwork of compromises
A permanent and habitual state of mind
A pernicious and growing tendency
A perversion of judgment
A phantom of the brain
A piece of grotesque stupidity
A pleasant flow of appropriate language
A pompous failure
A potential menace to life
A powerful and persuasive orator
A prevalent characteristic of her nature
A prey to the tongue of the public
A pristine vigor of style
A profusion of compliments
A proposition inherently vicious
A puerile illusion [puerile = immature; childish]
A quenchless thirst for expression
A rage akin to frenzy
A rare precision of insight
A rather desperate procedure
A reckless fashion
A recrudescence of superstition [recrudescence = recurrence of a pathological symptoms after a period of improvement]
A relish for the sublime
A reversion to the boldest paganism
A rigid avoidance of extravagance and excess
A ripple of applause
A restraining and conservative force
A robust and consistent application
A sacred and indissoluble union
A sane philosophy of life
A secluded dreamer of dreams
A secret and wistful charm
A sense of deepening discouragement
A sense of indescribable reverence
A series of brief and irritating hopes
A settled conviction of success
A sharp difference of opinion
A sharp pang of regretful surprise
A shrewd eye to the main chance
A signal deed of justice
A skeptical suspension of judgment
A slight and superficial tribute
A slowly subsiding frenzy
A snare and a delusion