enthusiasm vs verve

enthusiasm

noun
  • Intensity of feeling; excited interest or eagerness. 

  • Something in which one is keenly interested. 

verve

noun
  • Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing. 

How often have the words enthusiasm and verve occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )