| 单词 | voluptuousness |
| 例句 | When he first got the job with Kate, Joe looked for the weaknesses on which he lived—vanity, voluptuousness, anxiety or conscience, greed, hysteria. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I sat in my seat, in a state of voluptuous agitation, of agitated voluptuousness, until my stop. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She’s a natural Balanchine stylist, with qualities of wit, voluptuousness and even glee that make her gifts of attack and sweep become multifaceted. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z But any resemblance to Taylor's ivory voluptuousness is slight. Skip 'Liz & Dick' and watch a film they headline 2012-11-20T14:25:09Z This is clearly Ruth's homecoming; and McGuckin shows that, under the character's silky voluptuousness, there lurks a hint of steel. The Homecoming ? review 2011-08-04T10:54:01Z Lard is whipped in, along with chicken stock, bringing voluptuousness to every bite. It’s Called Factory Tamal, but the Food Is Strictly Handmade 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Like the other excellent moments of the film, it bristled with the unpredictable energy and decadent voluptuousness of a Fellini movie. Karl Lagerfeld: Chanel designer moves into movies 2011-05-10T13:24:09Z Blowup: The Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni brought an intellectual voluptuousness to Europe’s postwar anomie; his English-language debut film also defined Swinging London’s new generation of cool kids who have it all and still feel empty. Secrets of the New All-TIME 100 Movies List 2012-05-17T10:00:44Z Still, for all the voluptuousness, something keeps you on guard. Music Review | Yannick N?zet-S?guin: Youthful Intensity, Onstage and in the Program 2010-02-19T04:51:00Z Combined with straightforward narrative segments filmed in the quotidian, slow-moving international-art-house mode, they contribute to an atmosphere that combines rigor and voluptuousness. | 'Summer of Goliath': Scenes From Rural Mexico, Inspired by Life or Imagination 2011-07-08T02:49:49Z His smooth and luminous wide-screen images conjure ease, scarcity, excess, a fullness of style that suggests there’s lots more where that came from—Baudelaire’s “luxury, calm, and voluptuousness” brought to the screen. Spike Lee’s Vampiric Remake 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Resonant and graceful Kiss, heavenly Kiss!Nonpareil voluptuousness, intoxication indescribable!All hail! The Saturday poem: Il bacio by Paul Verlaine 2011-03-26T00:05:27Z Mr. Dutoit captured the awe, brutality and voluptuousness of the music in a cinematic yet cool and transparent performance. Music Review: Charles Dutoit Conducts Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z Whip the cream until thick and airy but still with a soft voluptuousness about it, and set it aside for a mo. The 20 best Nigella Lawson recipes: part 4 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Reichlen, in superb form all season, relished the chance to show a new voluptuousness. Taking the Pulse of New York City Ballet Without Peter Martins 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z This does, intriguingly, transform her legendary voluptuousness into a believable portrait of an Ole Miss grad whose hard-won financial safety has started to crumble. Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ Knows Its Good Angles 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z The master of female voluptuousness was also a master at depicting high religious drama. Datebook: Baroque works, samurai armor, amateur dancing, skid row arts 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z That now looks like the last flare of classic star charisma, the last time the public could read any imagined voluptuousness into a decorous, sulky princess of "House & Garden." Elizabeth Taylor, from beauty icon to punchline 2011-03-23T22:30:00Z Strauss’s score is an irresistible mix of voluptuousness, bristling modern harmony, heaving orchestral intensity and high camp. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z The music is a riot of clashing styles, with evocations of agitprop and Straussian voluptuousness stirred up with jazzy blasts. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z And yet there were moments of astonishing liquidity, voluptuousness, delicacy and fullness, and her Protean mystery became more evident than ever. Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Tuesday’s Titania was Maria Kowroski: although there is more power and voluptuousness to this choreography than she shows, it always does this dancer good to be part of a comedy. Dance Review: City Ballet in Balanchine’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2012-06-06T21:59:12Z The women, especially, with bent elbows and hands softly framing their faces, float through this sweeping dance, yet the entire cast performs with an understated voluptuousness. Joyce Ballet Festival Spotlights Women, but Only One Dance Stands Out 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The voluptuousness of visual detail offers proof, if any more were needed after The Little Mermaid, that the Disney studio has relocated the pure magic of the Pinocchio-Dumbo years.” Beauty and the Beast in 3-D: Still an Enchantment 2012-01-12T17:33:27Z You may also catch echoes of Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth” in the mountain rest-cure setting, the weary disdain for modern life and the visual voluptuousness. Review: ‘A Cure for Wellness’ Is a Riot of Film References. With Eels. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Combined with straightforward narrative segments filmed in slow-moving, international-art-house mode, they contribute to an atmosphere that combines rigor and voluptuousness. 'Summer of Goliath': Usual small-town stories told in unusual way 2011-07-28T19:30:05Z In “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue,” she exposed a different side of herself, and not just because she was playing a stripper, lushly bending and relishing in her extension with gleeful voluptuousness. Rising Out of the Pandemic, City Ballet Ushers in a New Era 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The two are so different — his untamed voluptuousness offsets her restraint — that the appearance of another dancer, the earthy, compact Netta Yerushalmy, is disconcerting. Dance Review: Joanna Kotze’s ‘It happened,’ at Danspace Project 2013-06-04T23:10:19Z The hair remains longest on top, and a fade, undercut, or harsh disconnect enhances the style’s potential for voluptuousness. The Edgar is all the rage among the foos 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z They lack the voluptuousness of perfume or actual flowers, and arrive at the table filtered and secondhand, attenuated and almost austere. The Ethereal Taste of Flowers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z As played by Oscar winner Davis, Rainey’s body sags in its voluptuousness. Ma Rainey injected her music with color, controversy 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z “And then it also has that voluptuousness to it.” Review | There has never been a better time for takeout pizza 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Though conducting from the harpsichord, Haïm was mostly on her feet, in vivid contact with a small orchestra and bringing her unique combination of modern-day fire and voluptuousness to Handel. Review: The L.A. Phil, as only it can, delivers a long weekend of 'Apollo' and 'Flower Power' 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Messiaen uses it much of the time to add a viscous voluptuousness to texture of his love music that Cynthia Miller’s ondes martenot helped come as close to sonic pornography as the composer clearly desired. Review: After 70 years, Susanna Mälkki proves Messiaen’s ‘Turangalila’ is torrid no more 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z He is, we are told, “corrupted by vanity and voluptuousness” and “breathed nothing but false glory and false pleasures.” Opinion | If Trump Were a Fictional Character ... 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z The closest the author comes to sex may be: “Their hearts fused … the most exquisite voluptuousness flooded the hearts of the two enraptured lovers.” Napoleon Bonaparte, failed novelist: manuscript goes to auction 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Adorning much of the inside of the church are sunflowers, the preferred flower of Ochun, who is synonymous with sensuality and voluptuousness. Catholic and African Religious Traditions Meld in Cuba 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Another addition, burrata—the soft cheese with a center of even softer cream—adds voluptuousness. Tomato and Stone-Fruit Panzanella With Burrata 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Gemma Arterton plays the title character, an empty vessel beyond her beauty and voluptuousness, which director Anne Fontaine spends ample time examining. ‘Gemma Bovery’ movie review 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z The great abstractions of existence — capitalism, say, or evolution, or the expanding universe — are no more consequential in our lives than, as Gide insisted, “the voluptuousness of objects.” A Church-Shaped Hole in Our Lives 2014-03-02T05:01:48Z He is keenly attentive to Leigh’s thin voluptuousness — as who wasn’t? — and relishes the prospect of two scenes of Leigh in a bra and another nude in the shower. Was Alfred Hitchcock Psycho? 2012-11-25T05:25:00Z He was certainly an ardent lover; a male, in every respect, morally and physically, but endowed with that chastity which fits in well with healthy voluptuousness. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z What a delightful picture I could offer to my readers if it were possible for me to paint voluptuousness in its most enchanting colours! The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. I (of VI), "Venetian Years" The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings 2012-03-31T02:00:25.633Z We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations, and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z And I was struck again with the wonderful voluptuousness of her beauty; her mouth sensual and moist, the lips deep red and heavy. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z The girls are remarkable for the willowy languor and lightness of their movements, the voluptuousness of their attitudes—beating the exactest time with tapping heels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Into these divans where figures of this kind moved to the music of Saracen instruments, there entered an inevitable voluptuousness and corruption of manners. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z In the more lovely scenes of the poem he was not equally happy; for, "instead of repose and cheerfulness, his female figures had a degree of wantonness bordering somewhat upon voluptuousness." The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Their limbs, rendered effeminate by a new and fatal voluptuousness, grew at last unequal even to the weight of their arms, and they chose out the stoutest from among their slaves to serve as soldiers. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z It was with a real pleasure that he entered Villa Sirena, finding an unwonted voluptuousness in all the details of its comforts. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z It is as the result of that very constitution that enjoyment bears within itself the cause of its own exhaustion, that pleasure is changed into disgust, and that pain is born of all voluptuousness. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z Therefore the poet may just as well sing of voluptuousness as of mysticism, be Anacreon or Angelus Silesius, write tragedies or comedies, represent the sublime or the common mind—according to humour or vocation. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z "Right you are!" they said; and then we smoked on in halcyon voluptuousness, now and then passing the matches or a droll remark about Jones. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z He addressed an energetic memorial to the governor, urging the banishment of this effeminacy and voluptuousness from the military school. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z So also shall we be truly inconsiderate, if we love brief voluptuousness and transitory pleasures so greatly that they bring us to eternal torments. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z Seldom indeed have chasteness of execution and voluptuousness of character been so curiously and indissolubly blended. The Odes of Anacreon 2011-12-08T03:00:29.763Z Love is certainly of more significance to the Indian consciousness than to the European, and the Western fear of voluptuousness is hardly known in the East. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z Furthermore, the legend is flavored rather strongly with Persian voluptuousness, and is not at all suggestive of Greek delicacy and refinement. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z Boleslaus II., shut up within the "golden gate" of this city of voluptuousness, quaffed the bowl of pleasure till its intoxicating draught degraded all the nobler energies of his nature. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z And still less could he know that, notwithstanding all this, there was nevertheless voluptuousness in her anguish: that to suffer through him, to suffer for him made of her anguish all voluptuousness. Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel 2011-10-18T02:00:20.340Z But both works breathe, more powerfully perhaps than any others, the peculiar mixture of cultivated and poetical voluptuousness with a certain religiosity and a vigorous spirit of action which characterizes the French Renaissance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z She was famed down to the days of Augustus for her beauty, voluptuousness, virtues and vices. Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, 2011-10-13T02:00:41.150Z Her eyes are fine, full of fire, and sparkle with voluptuousness. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Elizabeth died on the throne, a motley character of goodness, indolence, and voluptuousness, and extremely admired for her great personal attractions. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Their love of gaming was proverbial, and their excess of indulgence in voluptuousness soon exhausted the income allowed them by the country. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z She has taught me, through oracles and dreams, the utter secret of her science, the secret of her highest voluptuousness, which she herself did not know until she loved Adonis. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z His own brain seemed to reel as he saw the Corybantes in mad frenzy wounding their own bodies with short swords, seeking voluptuousness in pain itself. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Gallantry, voluptuousness, pleasure,—that is my life; that is the road which I follow where my passions lead me. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z It had hardly seen the light when it became, as a result of the association of Quinault with Lulli, a counsellor of voluptuousness. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z However, as no person is compelled to enter into these scenes of dissipation and voluptuousness which they rejoice in, I found it, upon the whole, a very comfortable country to live in. Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade 2011-07-21T02:00:19.027Z It has some lively pictures of modern Puritanic character in New-England villages, which are a grateful relief to its pervading tone of speculative voluptuousness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z In this respect the passion-flower would be the fittest symbol of Christianity itself, whose most awe-inspiring charm consists in the voluptuousness of pain. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Nothing; and that is perhaps why weariness and disgust have often attacked me in the midst of the pleasures, the voluptuousness, I have tasted. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z For the rest, Quinault and Lulli made him choose the subjects for their operas; and Louis had therefore a responsibility for the voluptuousness which exhaled from their works. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z You owe your pleasure to him because you do not know what voluptuousness means, my tiniest of tiny girls. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Though many of his generals were rolling in voluptuousness, he indulged himself in no ostentation in dress or equipage. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z He is the supreme master of irony and troubled voluptuousness. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z But the sorcery of that exquisite voluptuousness thrilled in his blood. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z I'll plunge my brow, enamoured with voluptuousness Within this darkling ocean of infinitude, Until my subtle spirit, which thy waves caress, Shall find you once again, O fertile weariness; Unending lullabye of perfumed lassitude! The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z Their first embracement before love is immediately so perfect, so harmonious, that they keep it immobile, in order fully to know its multiple voluptuousness. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Well, these mortal insults, these jeers on the part of some one unknown, end at last in an enjoyment which sometimes reaches the highest degree of voluptuousness. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z Versailles was in itself a city of palaces and of courtiers, where all that could dazzle the eye in regal pomp and voluptuousness was concentred. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z To the sensual type voluptuousness is the aim of life and the centre of her acts and thoughts. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z There, all is order and loveliness, Luxury, calm and voluptuousness. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z My heart drunk with voluptuousness, could only suggest terms proper and moving to recommend that. Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes 2011-04-28T02:00:15.367Z Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness; let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: For this is our portion, and our lot in this477.” History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z It is from poetry that the elegies of Catullus derive almost all their tenderness—his amorous verses all their delicacy, playfulness, or voluptuousness—and his epigrams all their sting. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z He passed all his life in crime, voluptuousness, fraud, and imposture. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z There, all is order and loveliness, Luxury, calm and voluptuousness. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z Aroused from the voluptuousness and profligacy into which he had plunged by the intelligence of an invasion of his dominions by Demetrius, a son of the late king of that name, he prepared for war. Claimants to Royalty 2011-03-31T02:00:20.557Z The whole environment became tinged with a faint but genial voluptuousness. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z Only, for splendor of color and voluptuousness of perfume, there is nothing comparable to the Conservatory, in which roses and all other bright-hued flowers are grouped and massed in sumptuous magnificence. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z But the waltz bears her on in whirling, vague, voluptuousness. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z There, all is order and loveliness, Luxury, calm and voluptuousness. The Flowers of Evil 2011-05-15T02:00:07.523Z He hated and despised the voluptuousness, the imbecility, and the tyranny of the effete monarchy. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Besides ambition and cupidity, the motives commonly attributed to the poisoners, it was imagined that this action included an indefinable, diabolical voluptuousness of enjoyment, an attractiveness stronger than the will. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z There 's a healthful sincerity in the active life of the New World well fitted to dispel illusions that take their rise in the indolent voluptuousness of the Old. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z Everything in this retreat breathed voluptuousness; on every side I saw the glitter of gold and sumptuous materials, and varied colourings and rare flowers. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z Horizons of tranquil voluptuousness in a ch�let at the side of a lake opened out under the footsteps of the Swiss girl, who waltzed with her bust erect and her eyelashes drooping. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Sometimes it harmonizes for brief moments voluptuousness and idealism, but neither side ever wins and the struggle never ceases. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z Let the enticements to lust and voluptuousness be beaten down, by the agony and pains which thy Lord suffered in his holy body. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z All three still bore in their eyes the weary voluptuousness of the last waltz. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Her face expresses a breathless yet passive and innocent voluptuousness, free from affectation. Heathen Mythology Might have had a little more voluptuousness; but Litton says no, so I don’t complain. A Double Knot And it was in Campanian towns that in the first century was displayed most glaringly the not unusual combination of cruelty and voluptuousness. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius As the affections of the former, self-love, ambition, wrath, covetousness, and voluptuousness, are weakened and subdued, so are opposite affections of the spiritual life invigorated and raised. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Augustus now gave himself up to voluptuousness and a life of pleasure. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Another has a spear with its pine cane, which was the thyrsus; another dances with mad voluptuousness; the fourth is beating a kind of tambourine. Heathen Mythology His moral philosophy differed widely from that of Socrates, and was a science of refined voluptuousness. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli As the story progressed and the music grew in passion and voluptuousness, they distinctly saw his almost militant protest. The Hillman Maidenly modesty and retirement were wanting to elevate and dignify mere voluptuousness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 His Watteau-like style and graceful voluptuousness gave him the title of the Anacreon of painting, but his repute declined until recent years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Pride, avarice, envy, voluptuousness, and all the bad passions, were strangers to them; not because they had not the inclinations to these passions, but because they restrained and overcame their lower nature. The Progressionists, and Angela. Some of these have been very successful, though disfigured to some extent by coarse realism and voluptuousness. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli I thought of him in his gorgeous panoply, and his voluptuousness; lion-hearted and danger-seeking, pampering the very flesh he offered to the spears of the enemy. The Fortunes Of Glencore An equable tone of public morals, social and humane, verging neither to voluptuousness nor austerity, seems the most adapted to genius, or at least to letters, as it is to individual comfort and national prosperity. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 An actress, in order to interpret the works of dramatists, should love, love passionately, dream, suffer even terribly, in order to be able to incarnate love, voluptuousness, suffering, and despair. Rambles in Womanland There is no passion more violent than voluptuousness! Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 Her eyes half-closed, her entire being thrilled by a novel sensation of languor, she abandoned herself to the voluptuousness of the place and moment. By Right of Conquest A Novel It is obvious that in the primeval forests of Germany no such hyper-refined voluptuousness could exist as in Rome. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State It had no resemblance to the seducing voluptuousness of Ovid, any more than the elegant indecencies of Catullus. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 His sonnets to Olive have the finest flavour of the peculiarly cultivated and graceful voluptuousness which has been noted as one of the distinguishing marks of the French Renaissance. A Short History of French Literature Julian of the time—lived among fountains and orange blossoms and gorgeous pomegranate arches,—a type of the arrogant voluptuousness of the time, a voluptuousness which Dante symbolized later as the leopard. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 In the eighteenth century this ideal became mere desire; love became voluptuousness, which was to be found in art, music, styles, fashions--in everything. Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) This and other descriptions— "Upon a bed of roses she was laid As faint through heat, or dight to pleasant sin"— present every idea of lascivious voluptuousness. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem We find exhibited in the court life of the day a blending of the voluptuousness of the East with the refinement of the Greeks and the luxury of the Romans. Women of Early Christianity In Egyptian eyes their union was regarded as a marriage, and the relations of these two never assumed the grossness and voluptuousness that were later exhibited by Antony and Cleopatra. Greek Women Its impassioned repose and ideal voluptuousness are as far from their breasts as the poetry of that line in Shakspeare—"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon that bank!" A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Men of the English race are often grandly strong in resistance to every form of voluptuousness; the race is fond of comfort and convenience, but it does not sacrifice its energy to enervating self-indulgence. The Intellectual Life She was not more than twenty-four or five years old, with all the color and voluptuousness of the younger women of her race. The Song of the Wolf There is no passion more violent than voluptuousness. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Terpander united the music of Asia Minor with that of Greece proper, and the resulting product of �olian poetry was the union of Oriental voluptuousness with Greek self-restraint and art. Greek Women Whatever subtilty can invent, imagination create, the wildest dream depict, and voluptuousness can attain, will turn into martyrdom, into cutting off the beings that give themselves out as their brother. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. II. But the true Christian must ever strive against corrupt nature, if he would not be carried away by the stream of voluptuousness. What Shall I Be? A Chat With Young People She was sensuous, voluptuous, but there was strength behind the voluptuousness. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 Whence come all trouble and difficulty, vexation and annoyance, strife and contention--in short, all the depravities and miseries of humanity, but from the accursed luxury and voluptuousness of the members? The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II The expression "Corinthian maiden" denoted the acme of voluptuousness, and to "Corinthianize" became synonymous with leading the most dissolute life. Greek Women She squats tailor-fashion, her fingers are twined one in another in her lap, her eyes are closed, and her expression is one of drowsy, listless voluptuousness. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) The evil demon of voluptuousness displays all its charms. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians In this volume her introduction to Talleyrand is related in the usual melo-dramatic style of French writers, and her beauty described with that fullness of detail which approaches to voluptuousness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 All the wealth and fashion of Laodicea were there, Christian and heathen; and all that the classic voluptuousness of Oriental Greece could give to shed enchantment over the scene was there. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings The Franklin is voluptuousness itself, most nobly portrayed: It snewed in his house of meat and drink. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century In the first, it is the "lovely lay" which meets the knight of Temperance amid the voluptuousness which he is come to assail and punish. Spenser Magical practices, with their attendant cruelties and voluptuousness, still prevail in Tahiti, though only at certain intervals. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Louis XIV. had created for himself a sort of elysium of voluptuousness in the celebrated gardens of Marly. Maria Antoinette Makers of History Labour had been long felt as voluptuousness by Leland; and this is among the Calamities of Literature, and it is so with all those studies which deeply busy the intellect and the fancy. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors All through this brilliant course we may discern the power of the Asiatic temperament, of that voluptuousness which is perhaps connected with his appreciation of the intimacy, the almost mystical rapport, between man and nature. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The fire burned at times with so intense a radiance that it would seem to have consumed his early voluptuousness while decimating neither his human nor his spiritual passion. The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 No gentleman could have published the Liber Amoris, not at all because of its so-called voluptuousness, but because of its shameless kissing and telling. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The celebrated Parc au Cerf, the scene of almost unparalleled voluptuousness, was reared for her at an expense of twenty millions of dollars. Maria Antoinette Makers of History Everything in the woman’s environment was softened into the same degree of voluptuousness which characterized her and the life of sybaritic ease which she affected. Carmen Ariza In all these sounds there is a breathing, a wild voluptuousness that tells you you are wandering in the clime of the sun—amidst scenes like those rendered classical by the pen of St. Pierre. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 He who does not restrain voluptuousness is in the category of the beasts. Thoughts on Art and Life Mysticism, religious ecstasy and sexual voluptuousness are often combined in a real trinity, and one often sees unsatisfied sensuality seek compensation in religious exaltation. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study The spark of voluptuousness which has ever since burnt so fiercely in my breast was destined to be lighted up by one of my own sex. The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware The government was conducted by a system of bureaucracy which relieved the titular shōguns from all responsibility and allowed them to live in profitless voluptuousness. Japan That is no proof that he did not end in voluptuousness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 Henry wrote repeatedly for her to come and join him, but she vastly preferred the voluptuousness of the capital to the gloom and the hardships of the Protestant camp. Henry IV, Makers of History One day, putting his hand to her nose, she perceived an odor which penetrated her heart, "a celestial odor the voluptuousness of which could wake the dead." The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Joined as they were together, they seemed to experience the utmost voluptuousness. The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware With brutal, mad voluptuousness Her conquering eye a challenge darts. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems The occasional voluptuousness of the music was so transmuted in the alembic of his temperament that for him the sensual element was eliminated. War Letters of a Public-School Boy At that time it was a veritable museum of pornography, the apotheosis of Paphian voluptuousness. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess The term sadism is derived from the celebrated Marquis de Sade, a French author, whose obscene romances overflow with cruel voluptuousness. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study I had seen many naked women, but none to compare to Eudoxie; she was grace, beauty and voluptuousness combined. The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware All the shameful, natural and unnatural acts of sensual voluptuousness which he and the woman partook of together, created together, they had their heavy beauty and their delight. The Rainbow Her glance was electric, and it was impossible to meet her look unmoved, she exhaled an atmosphere of voluptuousness of the most maddening force. The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies By "filthiness" he means the impure life of the world—indulgence, voluptuousness and knavery of every sort. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost The nipples constitute in her an entire zone and their friction excites voluptuousness. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Jane was also disgusted with the many indications she saw, not only of indolence and voluptuousness, but of dissipation and utter want of principle. Madame Roland, Makers of History With a passion of voluptuousness that made him dwell on each tiny beauty, in a kind of frenzy of enjoyment, he lit upon her: her beauty, the beauties, the separate, several beauties of her body. The Rainbow In woman, as in man, the curve of voluptuousness exhibits four phases: an ascending limb, the equable voluptuous sensation, the acme, and the rapid decline. The Sexual Life of the Child He has not yet attained to that rank and full-blown combination of cruelty, perfidy, and voluptuousness, which the world associates with his name, but he is plainly on the lii way to it. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar Happy the man who should bestow the first chaste kiss of wedded love, upon the pure lips of a lovely bride, within that soft bower of voluptuousness! Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life Here the French kings reveled in voluptuousness, with their prisoners groaning beneath their feet. Madame Roland, Makers of History By now they knew each other; she was the daytime, the daylight, he was the shadow, put aside, but in the darkness potent with an overwhelming voluptuousness. The Rainbow Whereas in the male the curve of voluptuousness both rises and falls with extreme abruptness, in the female both the onset and the decline of voluptuous sensation are slower and more gradual. The Sexual Life of the Child In these books the story of Krishna is one of fetid, unblushing immorality and voluptuousness. India, Its Life and Thought I consented; two or three days passed, and I was rejoiced to perceive that she daily grew in strength and beauty, and was fast regaining that voluptuousness of person which had formerly distinguished her. Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life Versailles was in itself a city of palaces and of courtiers, where all that could dazzle the eye in regal pomp and princely voluptuousness was concentered. Madame Roland, Makers of History The monarchs of Assyria spent their time mainly in debasing crime and voluptuousness. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 It was that softness, that voluptuousness of her bodily movements, that catlike noiselessness. The Brothers Karamazov Drunk with one another, hurried by the absorbing voluptuousness of the waltz, we went on and on vertiginously. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century There she lay, the very personification of voluptuousness—large in stature, full in form, and exquisitely beautiful in feature! Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life The idyllic voluptuousness which permeated literature and art steeps their pictures in a golden glow. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) This was a kind of padlock, which shut up all access to the seat of voluptuousness. Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction In this curious apartment—a perfect gallery of amorous conceptions—Josephine and her mother were in the habit of consummating those intrigues which they wished to invest with extraordinary eclat and voluptuousness. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston The sight of his form troubled the voluptuousness of this meditation. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life A feeling of mysterious retrospective voluptuousness took possession of Frederick. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man This is the inflexible law she first proclaimed in the face of Pagan Emperors and people and which she has ever upheld, in spite of the passions and voluptuousness of her own rebellious children. The Faith of Our Fathers It is only at rare moments—as happens with ordinary men in the normal experience of the world—that he is swept away beyond the reach of lust and voluptuousness. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The graceful voluptuousness of your form, developed by this boyish costume, fired my soul with new and strange sensations, which, so help me heaven! City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston But his government was supported by the cruelty and voluptuousness of the age, and which has never been painted in more vivid colors than by St. Paul himself. Ancient States and Empires Their very voluptuousness is accidental: the sum and substance, the property and business of their lives and natures, are compact of mischief, malice, treachery, and the desire of "getting the better of somebody." A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 It is told in strains, which, for energy, voluptuousness, and dignity of description, are rarely found in our language.” Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield He, too, lies motionless with his cheek on the floor, face to face with the corpse, dimly conscious of the voluptuousness of victory. The Light of Scarthey They are overdrawn; the essence of vicious voluptuousness. My Recollections of Lord Byron The priests were hirelings; the Pharisees were hypocrites; the ruling classes had set aside their primitive simplicity and purity, and were given up to the voluptuousness and licence of the Empire. John the Baptist With a somewhat ghostly resurrection of voluptuousness dead and gone he bids Phyllis come and keep it with him. Horace This siren displayed voluptuousness and sensuality in a form and face so attractive and charming, that Faustus stood before her like one enchanted. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Her face, lightened by the flames, was coloured with the trace of fearful voluptuousness. The Goose Man Who reared me in an atmosphere, whose very breath was luxury, voluptuousness, pollution, till every drop of my wholesome blood was turned to liquid flame? till every passion in my heart became a fettered earthquake? The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 In the midst of anguish, I am tortured by voluptuousness. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul His �l�gies are rather Franco-Roman than Greek; these, together with beauties of their own, have the characteristic rhetoric, the conventional graces, the mundane voluptuousness of their age. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Faustus whispered to the Devil: “I will not quit this town till I have possessed that maiden: what voluptuousness beams in her eyes!” Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom He was terrified at the voluptuousness revealed to him by the unveiling of the mystery of his soul. The Goose Man In his effeminate heart There is a careless courage which Corruption10 Has not all quenched, and latent energies, Repressed by circumstance, but not destroyed— Steeped, but not drowned, in deep voluptuousness. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry The need of a superhuman voluptuousness tortures them. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul He had a certain prosaic honesty, and was frugal amid all his vulgar voluptuousness. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Consume with the fire of voluptuousness the noble feelings of his heart. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Ormond’s easy habits satisfied me that he was not a man of business originally, or had become sadly negligent under the debasing influence of wealth and voluptuousness. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver What we possess without intermission, we inevitably hold light; it is a refinement in voluptuousness to submit to voluntary privations. Mary Wollstonecraft This time, once more, it was the Devil, and under his two-fold aspect—the spirit of voluptuousness and the spirit of destruction. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul Finally, the public of that day always chose to veil and confuse the furtive voluptuousness of the time by moral disquisition, and a light and busy meddling with the insoluble perplexities of philosophy. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. It is four o'clock of a sunny August afternoon, and a quiet, Sabbath-like but for its lazy voluptuousness, broods over the scene. A Summer Evening's Dream 1898 Ah! captain, the sex—the dear seductive sex; this house is the modern Capua, and we are the Hannibals of France, toying away our severe virtues amid its voluptuousness. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 Her face expressed no emotion, either good or bad, beyond a voluptuousness at once sensual and divine. Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 The two looked at each other with caressing eyes, smiling with the automatism of love; but in reality they were sad, with that sweet sadness which in itself constitutes a new voluptuousness. Luna Benamor Every custom invites to repose, and every object inspires an indolent voluptuousness. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity Another seat of voluptuousness in the woman is located in the cervix of the uterus. Woman Her Sex and Love Life Of other sects and opinions, tho tending to voluptuousness, and the denying of Divine Providence, they took no heed. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I His holiness dwindled, and he might, perhaps, have sunk into voluptuousness and become little by little like those lukewarm souls which Heaven rejects had not succour come to him in the nick of time. Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 Such exceptions are far more rare than is usually supposed, because the self-preservative hypocrisy of most pessimists enables them to conceal their voluptuousness under the mask of pity. The Complex Vision We alone, we Athenians, with less military skill perhaps, and certainly less rigid abstinence from voluptuousness and luxury, have set before it the only grand example of social government and of polished life. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection There was a tenderness, a hope, a voluptuousness of sweet earthly things in her manner toward the poor girl now, which all her life Vesty had missed. Vesty of the Basins He rebukes himself for his abandonment to 'the worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.' Figures of Several Centuries Her face has the French character; it is long, but beautiful: its principal expression seemed to me voluptuousness, with something of the haughty beauty. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 The pleasure which certain minds derive from a contemplation of the "deadness of matter" is closely associated with the voluptuousness of cruelty drawn from the recesses of the sexual instinct. The Complex Vision I the more easily credit it, as Master Thomas Coriatt doth vouch for having seen the same monstrous sign of voluptuousness at Venice. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection I say that his pleasure had the voluptuousness of an artistic sensation. Clayhanger O foul voluptuousness! when I have made Of every deadly sin a deadlier blade, Silverpoints His poetry is the quintessence of æsthetic voluptuousness, such as was evolved on the soil of the sybaritism of the landed gentry in the circles of the '40's of the nineteenth century. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections More dangerous, however, to art, than any popular craving for "human interest" or for the comfort of amorous voluptuousness, is the unpardonable stupidity of puritanical censorship. The Complex Vision This place presents a scene of profligate voluptuousness, not to be equalled upon any spot in Europe. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. He felt a sort of dull voluptuousness stealing over him as he stared at the water. The Call of the Blood There was, however, an expression of firmness, almost of ferocity, about his mouth, which quite prevented his countenance from being effeminate, and broke the dreamy voluptuousness of the rest of his features. The Young Duke A strange feeling, half of languor, half of voluptuousness, steals over my senses! The Infernal Marriage Witness the incest of Amnon, and the voluptuousness of Solomon, who had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. Plain Facts for Old and Young The 'refined voluptuousness and impassioned sombreness' of Giorgione's painting have instituted a comparison between him and Lord Byron as a poet. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art The heathen poets often pressed on their readers the necessity of considering the shortness of life, as an incentive to pleasure and voluptuousness; lest the season for indulging in them should pass unimproved. Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies The mind should be led to voluptuousness by exquisite associations, as well as by the creations of art. The Young Duke Nevertheless, the voluptuousness and vehemence are held in fastidious restraint. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers If this degraded voluptuousness had been confined to royalty, some respect might yet be entertained for the virtue of the ancients; but the foul infection was not restrained within such narrow bounds. Plain Facts for Old and Young The King may be mean, degraded, miserable; the slave of ambition, fear, voluptuousness, and every low passion. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry It was his voluptuousness to delight in it, not brush its bloom away with a lover's avowal. The Emigrant Trail Everything that sleep gives birth to that is lovely, its perfumes, its flowers and nectar, the wild voluptuousness or deep repose of the senses, had the painter enriched with his frescoes. The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" The whole face has a somewhat stern and frowning Roman look of resolution, contrasting with the mild benignity of the Bacchus statues, and the almost sulky voluptuousness of the busts. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The gratification of lust so degrades the soul and benumbs the higher sensibilities that a votary of voluptuousness is a most unpromising subject for reformatory efforts. Plain Facts for Old and Young The painter sat down beside the countess, sinking into the perfumed atmosphere which surrounded her with a sort of nimbus of keen voluptuousness. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) The 'Resignation' represents the refined voluptuousness of riper womanhood. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Venice the beautiful city ended, pagan-like, as did its sisters the Greek republics, through nonchalance and voluptuousness. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) The whole body combines Greek beauty of structure with something of Oriental voluptuousness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The performances at all theatres, music-halls, etc., had grown rapidly worse and worse, in character,—licentiousness, animalism, voluptuousness, debauchery, these were the main features of the newer type of performances. The Mark of the Beast He extolled it and described it, praising those good gentlemen who, like himself, lived free from passion with no other voluptuousness in life than a refined appetite. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) He dismisses Mephistophilis back to Lucifer with this report of himself: Say, he surrenders up to him his soul, So he will spare him four and twenty years, Letting him live in all voluptuousness. The Growth of English Drama Thus he had something of the voluptuousness of the Turk, the ostentation of the Hindu, the flightiness of the Pole, the foolhardiness of the Hungarian, and the obstinacy of the Wallach. The Poor Plutocrats As we gaze, Virgil's lines upon the young Marcellus recur to our mind: what seemed sullen, becomes mournful; the unmistakable voluptuousness is transfigured in tranquillity. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Cleanliness, the care of oneself, by rendering the skin more delicate, increase the pleasure of contact; and attention to one's health renders the organs of voluptuousness more sensitive. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary I took this house to be the temple of voluptuousness. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 He will account all things good that flatter his conceit, and all things evil that disturb the voluptuousness of his attachment. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals It lived on terror and voluptuousness; its police was a system of secret confession, of each against the other. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution The undefinable expression of the lips, together with the weight of the brows and slumberous half-closed eyes, gives a look of sulkiness or voluptuousness to the whole face. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series This was by no means cheering, especially to those who had lived in ease and affluence, whose bodies were enervated by voluptuousness and hands made tender by years of idle pleasures. Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. In the dark excesses of the Mysteries the beauty of the human form counted for nothing; voluptuousness and intoxication ruled. The Evolution of Love And the reason of His uncompromising hostility to voluptuousness can be found in the intrinsic malice of the evil. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals The muses will not inhabit the abodes of voluptuousness and sensual pleasure. Dialogues of the Dead Faith, hope, and love, which make others strong, had in him degenerated into superstition, frivolity, and voluptuousness—already he was but half a man. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul Is not the state of man who is plunged in voluptuousness a wretched condition both for the body and soul? The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates It is a magnificent, poetico-musical picture of untrammelled sexuality, whose queen is Woman, the priestess of voluptuousness, represented by Venus. The Evolution of Love Yet nothing is of more celestial beauty than this great and strong figure in its rose-coloured tunic and azure mantle; notwithstanding the powerful voluptuousness of the body, the radiant glance is of the purest virginity. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Her mouth was firm, yet somehow with a faint, womanly voluptuousness in its sweet curves. Nobody's Man In the eighteenth century this ideal became mere desire; love became voluptuousness, which was to be found in art, music, styles, fashions—in everything. Women of Modern France And if not… "But to-night," she hazarded, leaning far over the table and putting her face close to his, her eyes the while flooded with voluptuousness, "you will come with me to my room?" The Girl of the Golden West He blessed the savage crime committed on him because it saved him for ever from the sin of voluptuousness. The Evolution of Love Power and voluptuousness blaze there, unbridled and superb. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers The dreamy voluptuousness that pervades these duets comes from songs written by Wagner as studies. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas His voluptuousness was joyous and tender; and he was never viewed reeling with intoxication. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 And with his greedy glance he continued to trace the curves of that exquisite torso, the back that he had pressed, all the being moulded by voluptuousness, that had been his. His Excellency the Minister Kleist as well as Henrietta had separately resolved to commit suicide, and when they—almost accidentally—heard of this mutual intention, they conceived the idea of the new voluptuousness of a common death. The Evolution of Love The face, in the exquisite sweetness of a surrender to piety, reflects the bliss of Faith, of mystical voluptuousness, and divine ecstasy. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Schumann, typical of despair, the voluptuousness of despair! His Masterpiece So Epicurus dictated the art Of sweet voluptuousness, and ate in order, Musing delighted o'er the sovereign good! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 An overpowering voluptuousness of silken clothing dressed the bed itself. The Day of Days An Extravaganza Here the remotest limit has been reached—sensuousness seems to flow into eternity, voluptuousness would shatter the world to pieces and create a new relationship of things. The Evolution of Love The contrast thus became very marked between the semi-barbarism of the provinces and the enlightenment and voluptuousness of the capital. The Empire of Russia Correggio conceived the universe under the one mood of sensuous joy: his world was bathed in luxurious light; its inhabitants were capable of little beyond a soft voluptuousness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series I have always had a horror of that pale tobacco which gives a barber of the Rue de la Michodière the illusion of oriental voluptuousness. Atlantida Vice may be excess in any direction, but asceticism has generally been accepted as a nobler vice than voluptuousness. The Practice and Science of Drawing Earthly sensuality did not satisfy Novalis, voluptuousness detached from man, voluptuousness in itself, was his dream and his religion—the supremest creation ever achieved by sexuality intensified into a cosmic emotion. The Evolution of Love One is astonished at the way these people cling to their belief; but does one know the pleasure and voluptuousness they derive from it? Over Strand and Field And like the windows, the alcove was curtained with coarsely hemmed calico, whose simplicity seemed strange in this room where lingered a perfume of whilom luxury and voluptuousness. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The bridal year needs seclusion, on account of a normal voluptuousness that attends it. The Nervous Housewife It arrives at nearly the same result by impoverishing the peasant and land owner, by the many new pleasures offered him and by displaying to him the ostentation and voluptuousness of luxury and ease. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) He has left it on record in one of his letters that he was a victim at one period of “the worst voluptuousness, an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.” The Art of Letters The inhabitants invoked the devil, joked with death, murdered children, enjoyed frightful and atrocious pleasures; blood flowed, instruments played, everything echoed with voluptuousness, horror, and madness. Over Strand and Field They already seemed to hear their panting sighs, and to feel their breath filling the spacious room with the perfume of voluptuousness. Abbe Mouret's Transgression It is because, like the Greek courtesans to whom grace and voluptuousness were taught, they have studied the art of pleasing. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society The writer adds significantly that this dancing "would seem to emanate from a species of voluptuousness." Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Ingres is the artist who has best expressed the voluptuousness not of flesh but of form; who has felt feminine beauty most profoundly and chastely. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Thus all about her enticed to pleasure and voluptuousnesss; but the heart of Inez turned with distaste from this idle mockery. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists So early an acquaintance with the world seems to argue an uncommon degree of voluptuousness, and cannot fail of affecting the nation in general. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 In one is the clear day flame of impersonality; the other is all personality, given to nocturnal moods, to diabolism and perversities, cruelties and fierce voluptuousness. Promenades of an Impressionist Antonyms: self-indulgence, sensuality, voluptuousness. self-denying, a. self-sacrificing, unselfish, ascetic, abstemious. self-evident, a. axiomatic, obvious. self-examination, n. introspection; autoscopy. self-explanatory, a. obvious. self-fear, n. self-distrust, autophoby. self-fertilization, n. autogamy. self-government, n. self-control; democracy; autonomy. Putnam's Word Book Or was it not rather the sort of physical torpor that numbs the sated beast of prey, glutted with flesh, drunk with blood, a torpor that is almost voluptuousness? The Teeth of the Tiger The country around him was enough to awaken that voluptuousness of feeling so favourable to the growth of passion. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists For sheer voluptuousness of style there is little in literature to parallel the description of the boudoir of the uncanny heroine. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Not for an instant does he participate personally in the strained voluptuousness or terrific chastisements of his designs. Promenades of an Impressionist I begin by agreeing with you as to his implied under-estimate of women; his women are too voluptuous; however, of the most refined voluptuousness. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) For pastoral charms, fertility of soil, variety of productions, and delicious voluptuousness of climate and scenery, it cannot be surpassed. What I Saw in California In "The Triumph of Death" we find a fierce smoldering voluptuousness, expressed with a hard and brutal realism which recalls the frescoes on the walls of ancient Pompeii. One Hundred Best Books And just as womanly purity and innocence quail before unwomanly self-assertion and voluptuousness, so manly loyalty and unselfishness give way before unmanly treachery and self-seeking. Elizabethan Demonology Richard Strauss has shown a rare variation on the theme of ecstasy; voluptuousness troubled by pain, the soul tormented by stranger nuances. Promenades of an Impressionist It is Ottima, lifted above her own superb voluptuousness, who cries—"Not me—to him, O God, be merciful." Robert Browning The voluptuousness of the sensation cannot be known by born freemen. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People In the getting, Titian was certainly all this, but in the spending he was large and liberal, inclined to splendour and voluptuousness, even more in the second than in the first half of his career. The Earlier Work of Titian Scarcely human beings, they were useful to voluptuousness and to religion. The Man Who Laughs There was a manliness about him superior to low, sensual enjoyment; and the imagery and language of vulgar voluptuousness found no cell in a well-stored, well-principled, and masculine mind, to receive or retain them. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 582, December 22, 1832 Half-blown and waiting, a little voluptuous because voluptuousness already emanated from her, she was like a rose inhaling sunlight. The Inferno The apartments of the Follingsbee mansion, with their dreamy voluptuousness, were eminently adapted to be the background and scenery of a dramatic performance of this kind. Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel In Greek sculpture, passing into convulsed and muscular forms or forms of relaxed voluptuousness, in Italian painting, in the romantic poetry of this century with us, the same stages are manifest. Heart of Man He came to the point of regarding her under a hitherto unheard-of form; as a creature no longer of ecstasy only, but of voluptuousness; as Dea, with her head resting on the pillow. The Man Who Laughs They flew through rich halls, and through poor chambers; voluptuousness and envy, all mortal sins strode past them. Pictures of Sweden Whole gangs of slaves were mere tools of capitalists, and were numbered like cattle, with no moral relationship to the owner; young women of beautiful person were sold as articles of voluptuousness. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed Educated at the court of the Empress Elizabeth, life had appeared to him in all its voluptuousness and fullness, but at the same time had soon been stripped of all its fancies and illusions. The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel The severity of line was subtly made to emphasize the voluptuousness of the body that was covered but not hidden. The Eyes of the World There he would paint the licentious effects of voluptuousness. The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason This better than anything else established the truth of the assertion that he had not become weaker in Alexandria and had not delayed there out of voluptuousness. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). Signorelli was the first, and, with the exception of Michael Angelo, the last painter thus to use the body, without sentiment, without voluptuousness, without any second intention whatsoever, as the supreme decorative principle. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts The Turks, and indeed the Orientals in general, have few images of voluptuousness without the richest flowers contributing towards them. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Hence, while the Oak is the symbol of hospitality and of the arts to which it has given its aid, the Palm symbolizes the voluptuousness of a tropical clime and the indolence of its inhabitants. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Ah! the bliss, the voluptuousness of holding her pinned beneath one knee and demanding between two stabs: "Am I ridiculous now?" The Aspirations of Jean Servien For a man to dream of a Jewess, denotes that his desires run parallel with voluptuousness and easy comfort. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition We find in him, on the contrary, a somewhat coarse display of animal force in men, and of superb voluptuousness in women. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts The dainty voluptuousness in a "Serenade" kindles with the luxuriousness of the South. The Poems of Henry Timrod If a system of deceit, pursued merely from the love of truth; if voluptuousness, never gratified at the expense of health, may incur censure, I am censurable. Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist What voluptuousness to float amid this radiant ether, to bathe oneself in it, to wrap oneself in the sun's pure rays. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon They say he is valiant as the bravest of his order; but stained with their usual vices, pride, arrogance, cruelty, and voluptuousness; a hard-hearted man, who knows neither fear of earth, nor awe of heaven. Ivanhoe One man chooses travelling, another ambition, a third study, a fourth voluptuousness and a mistress. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author There was a bond between them, music,—the most refined form of sensual voluptuousness. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Of other sects and opinions, though tending to voluptuousness, and the denying of divine Providence, they took no heed. Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England His brain was bewildered, and presented a confused Chaos of remorse, voluptuousness, inquietude, and fear. The Monk; a romance Well, these mortal insults, these jeers on the part of someone unknown, end at last in an enjoyment which sometimes reaches the highest degree of voluptuousness. Notes from the Underground Her skin was fine, pale, soft, suggesting a weak voluptuousness. Main Street Susan knew she had good looks, knew what was becoming to her darkly and softly fringed violet eyes, pallid skin, to her rather tall figure, slender, not voluptuous yet suggesting voluptuousness. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise The Spartans succumbed the more easily to the allurements of luxury and Asiatic voluptuousness, being placed entirely at their mercy by their own coarseness. What is Property? The Friar slept well; But the dreams of the former night were repeated, and his sensations of voluptuousness were yet more keen and exquisite. The Monk; a romance I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters which please the young and gay. Dracula If the former, you can sing in honour of all the voluptuousness and all the sirens of the universe, without ever having known either. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it contained all the violence of voluptuousness. Les Misérables Eighteen Hundred years ago, the world, under the rule of the Caesars, exhausted itself in slavery, superstition, and voluptuousness. What is Property? The Infernal Spirits obey me as their Sovereign: By their aid shall my days be past in every refinement of luxury and voluptuousness. The Monk; a romance Wis 2:9 Let none of us go without his part of our voluptuousness: let us leave tokens of our joyfulness in every place: for this is our portion, and our lot is this. Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha Her figure had acquired a majestic ease, which gave to her movements voluptuousness and firmness. Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish Neither did they come aboard to-night to give us another once-over through sheer voluptuousness. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf In Canticles we have a contrasted picture between the simplicity of shepherd-life and the urban voluptuousness which was soon to attain its climax in the court of the Ptolemies. The Book of Delight and Other Papers Her body was quivering; her eyes languid with love and moist with voluptuousness; her bosom was bare, her lips burning. The Confession of a Child of the Century It's because I've recently come to hear that the retribution for voluptuousness extends up to this place, that I betake myself here in order to find suitable opportunities of disseminating mutual affections. Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books She needs neither poets nor painters not yet musicians, who corrupt morals by softening them, and by making all feel the secret pang of voluptuousness. Initiation into Philosophy There is a feeling of mystery attached to these musical nights that yields a savor of romance to the quiet voluptuousness of a summer evening. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 "The first explosions of combustible constitution" in Rousseau's, precocious nature were troublesome, and he felt premature sensations of erotic voluptuousness, but without any sin. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene He often spent whole days in the bosom of voluptuousness, reposing upon couches of down, under ceilings of gold. Imogen A Pastoral Romance Messalina's guilty amours with Silius are described with a gay and festive air, with that pride of voluptuousness, and feeling taste of pleasure, as show the writer well versed in court intrigue. Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century Absolute want occasions the miseries of the lower class in some civiliz'd states, and is the result of the unbounded voluptuousness of their superiors. The Farmer's Boy A Rural Poem You will find nothing in any voluptuousness fit to be compared to it. Saint Augustin Even every place celebrated in the annals of voluptuousness, is, as it were, reproduced in Paris, which, in some shape or another, presents its name or image. Paris as It Was and as It Is He had comparatively passed through no previous scenes; he had not been led on step by step; and the voluptuousness of the objects that now presented themselves before him had been unknown and unexpected. Imogen A Pastoral Romance If man be led captive by his passions, and gives himself to debauchery and voluptuousness, nature will punish him with bodily infirmities and a debilitated mind. The System of Nature, Volume 2 The various names which have been given to these passions, are relative to the different objects by which they are excited, such as pleasure, grandeur, or riches, which produce voluptuousness, ambition, vanity and avarice. The System of Nature, Volume 1 She had no archness or coquetry like some, no voluptuousness like others, no arts to win applause like others. Cord and Creese As we are decoyed into life by the utterly illusory impulse to voluptuousness, even so are we held fast therein by the fear of death, which is certainly illusory in an equal degree. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur He calls her 'the good child in whose soul, secretly, a voice of voluptuousness resounds.' Shakspere and Montaigne But, however his illness prevailed, he relinquished nothing of his vile voluptuousness; forcing patience, and feigning health. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola We will unite the race in one grand effort of prolific production and unlimited voluptuousness. Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs Sated with the indulgence of low desires, he let all power slip from his idle hands, and his manhood was rotted away by wallowing in the pigsty of voluptuousness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Rodin often introduces a trivial voluptuousness into art; and his sculpture may be sometimes called l'article de Paris. Memoirs of My Dead Life The intonation of his voice as he said 'dear' caused her an involuntary feeling of voluptuousness. A Mummer's Wife Our dark, earthly nature is suffused with a cruel voluptuousness. The Created Legend They are chiefly mystical and ecstatic, and full of the refined and spiritual voluptuousness of a devout young heart whose pulsations had never learned to beat for earthly objects. Castilian Days His large deep blue eye, madid and yet piercing, showed that the secretions of his brain were apportioned, half to voluptuousness, half to common sense. Coningsby Her hair was ornamented with a profusion of jewels, but was so disposed as to give an air rather of voluptuousness than of grace, to her figure. A Sicilian Romance She felt irritated with herself for this thought, but could not rid herself of it; a bitter sense of voluptuousness burnt at the bottom of her heart, and she railed against life sullenly. A Mummer's Wife There is much of the feeling of Correggio, but with more natural grace and less voluptuousness. Fra Bartolommeo It will be valueless and turn to no good use, will serve only to feed the swine of intellectual voluptuousness and infidelity. Dawn And, while the honest country class was dying out, the town class was ever plunging deeper into frivolity and voluptuousness. The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History The lovers reached the extreme limits of voluptuousness! The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert However, I do not know very well in what the pleasure, or voluptuousness of Epicurus consisted, for I never saw so many different opinions of any one as those of the morals of this philosopher. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century His conception of love unites all the voluptuousness of the Oriental harem, and all the gallantry of the chivalric tournament with all the pure and quiet affection of an English fireside. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam Her rosy mouth breathed simplicity as well as voluptuousness. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 The priests of these idols appear to live more regularly, and are less addicted to voluptuousness than other idolaters. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Then she arose and, after shaking off the fatigue of voluptuousness, returned to the domestic hearth, to that hearth where she would find a husband who adored her. The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert But if he loved the enjoyment of voluptuousness, he conducted himself like a wise man. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century Ye ask and have not, because ye ask amiss, for to consume it upon your voluptuousness. The first New Testament printed in English And whosoever did that, by chance, out of sheer voluptuousness, or with malice prepense, won immediate title to Sofia's favourable regard. Red Masquerade He began to strangle it, and its convulsions made his heart beat quicker, and filled him with a wild, tumultuous voluptuousness, the last throb of its heart making him feel like fainting. Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. There I felt all that voluptuousness carries with it. The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert I do not believe that Epicurus desired to broach a voluptuousness harsher than the virtue of the Stoics. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another. The first New Testament printed in English All that Eastern taste could devise of beauty, that Eastern lavishness could fancy of adornment, or voluptuousness demand of luxury, was brought together and displayed here. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 A chief cook in the palmy days of Roman voluptuousness had about £800 a year, and Antony rewarded the one that cooked the supper which pleased Cleopatra, with the present of a city. The Book of Household Management He invited the health officer and his wife, and this was for her an initiation into all the ardour of voluptuousness! The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert The former suffers pain without having any pain; the latter enjoys voluptuousness without being voluptuous—a pleasure without pleasure. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century These affections oppress moral liberty by pain, as the others by voluptuousness; consequently they can excite aversion, and not the emotion that would alone be worthy of art. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller It does not aim at any definite century, but seeks to emphasize the youthful voluptuousness of the figure, the magnificent blond hair, and the clear complexion. Mogens and Other Stories But this great crowd of unemployed priests which is in the fraternities cannot afford, in this voluptuousness, even this Levitical continence, as the facts show. Apology of the Augsburg Confession That is not all, for according to the last tableau that I cannot omit, she came to be weary of her voluptuousness. The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert I am surprised that the voluptuousness of such an Epicurean is not founded upon the idea of death, for, considering the miseries of life, his sovereign good must be at the end of it. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century Liberty in its plenitude and in its highest enjoyment tends to the complete destruction of liberty, and the excitement of the mind to the delirium of the voluptuousness of the senses. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller These abrupt and alternate sensations of voluptuousness and disgust, these successive contacts of burning love and frigid death, set him panting for breath, and caused him to shudder and gasp in anguish. Theresa Raquin We became aware, during that wonderful night, of voluptuousness the abyss of which borders on suffering. The Queen Pedauque They told the disappointments of the week, their presentiments, their fears about the letters; but now all was forgotten, and they were face to face, with their laugh of voluptuousness and terms of endearment. The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert From this difference in the grade of voluptuousness has sprung all the reputation accorded him. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century In the liver is the place of voluptuousness and liking of the flesh. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Her large black eyes—which, by turns languished and beamed with beauty beneath their ebon lashes—could feign to admiration all the kindling fires of voluptuousness. Mysteries of Paris, V3 I shall never again dare to stand before M. d'Asterac, who believes me to have passed the night in the silent voluptuousness of magic, which perhaps would have been better for me. The Queen Pedauque He is also a past master in gastronomy, and a connoisseur in voluptuousness generally. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Timocrates and his other opponents, attacked him on account of his sensual pleasures; those who defended him, did not go beyond his spiritual voluptuousness. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century A woman, whose gliding walk and shapely voluptuousness of body indicated the Polish Jewess, paused, and bending her head, without a word of salutation, listened to the eager lad. The Midnight Passenger : a novel The world must indeed be empty for him who has never been unhealthy enough for this 'infernal voluptuousness'; it is allowable and yet almost forbidden to use a mystical expression in this behalf. Thoughts out of Season Part I As I did not consider it to be any use to press the subject further, I took her round the waist, we embraced, our lips met and all my being seemed to melt in voluptuousness. The Queen Pedauque They declaimed against the length of meals which violated all prudence by surrounding persons by every species of voluptuousness. The Physiology of Taste Sensual voluptuousness is not less well explained by Cicero. Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century She did not indulge in the enervating voluptuousness of grief. The Old Wives' Tale It was, so to say, a rapid presentiment, a desire for some strange voluptuousness, to which Heaven, by the mournful accents of the tocsin, was promising early gratification. The Fortune of the Rougons All that proud loveliness, that dazzling supremacy, that superb voluptuousness, that triumphant dominion, . . swept away into a heap of undiscoverable ashes! Ardath All was in the most gorgeous and splendid style of oriental voluptuousness. The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence As a melody it has all the lurking voluptuousness and mystic crooning of its composer. Chopin : the Man and His Music In justice to him it is to be said that he cared nothing for wealth, except in so far as wealth could gratify his eye and ear trained to artistic voluptuousness. The Old Wives' Tale I say "shop" instead of buy, to distinguish between the dull purchase of necessities and the voluptuousness of acquiring things one might do without. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Hitherto his ideal had been a widely different type of woman; he had demanded rare beauty of face, and the charm of a refined voluptuousness. The Odd Women The voluptuousness was like that of machinery, cold and iron. Women in Love But so keen for symmetry, for all the term formal beauty implies, is Chopin, that seldom does his morbidity madden, his voluptuousness poison. Chopin : the Man and His Music The expression of two opposed, yet allied, elements of sensibility in these lines, is very true to Coleridge:—the grievous agitation, the grievous listlessness, almost never entirely relieved, together with a certain physical voluptuousness. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Why have I not wings that I might fly to your feet and fall into your arms, full of the sweetest voluptuousness! The Widow Lerouge Louis the Fifteenth was balancing the great account of his life—a life of luxury, voluptuousness, and supreme selfishness. Joseph II. and His Court Upon these monumental walls are inscribed, in letters more legible than the hieroglyphics of Egypt, and as ineffaceable, the long and dreary story of kingly vice, voluptuousness and pride, and of popular servility and oppression. Napoleon Bonaparte Very soon, however, Jasmine's sensitive beauty, which in her desire to intoxicate him became voluptuousness, enveloped his brain in a mist of rainbow reflections. The Judgment House Pursue no longer the slippery path of frivolity and voluptuousness. Louisa of Prussia and Her Times At one time it seemed all stateliness, at another time elegance personified, and flowing voluptuousness at another. Peg Woffington With the coolness of a helmsman he steered the flower-laden bark of voluptuousness toward the breakers, while he befooled its passengers with visions of fatal beauty. Joseph II. and His Court "We, the millions," they exclaimed in their rage, "will no longer minister to your voluptuousness, and pride, and lust." Napoleon Bonaparte Who can look at these rocks, and allow the voluptuousness of nature to be an excuse for gratifying the desires it inspires? Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Yet, true voluptuousness must proceed from the mind—for what can equal the sensations produced by mutual affection, supported by mutual respect? Vindication of the Rights of Woman In other cases it may imply merely indolent, enticing voluptuousness, as in Lely's portraits of women. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Everything that sleep gives birth to that is lovely, its fairy scenes, its flowers and nectar, the wild voluptuousness or profound repose of the senses, had the painter elaborated on his frescoes. The Man in the Iron Mask The hour was come, the elements were there, but since he could not abandon himself to their dominion the voluptuousness was wanting. The Lion's Skin But one whereby pleasure and voluptuousness may be resisted and opposed, I see: continence. Meditations In sermons or novels, however, voluptuousness is always true to its text. Vindication of the Rights of Woman These images of voluptuousness made him clench his fists, and a shiver run along his spine. Notre-Dame De Paris In that place, at that hour, on that tapestry, this mingling of divine ecstasy and human voluptuousness had something at once charming and awful about it. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo I will expose this nest of depravity, all ceremony on the surface, and voluptuousness and treachery below. White Lies There was an air of restrained voluptuousness about her, and she seemed the very embodiment of passion. Caught in the Net Sidney, with a sweet temper and winning manners, seemed to be deficient in capacity and knowledge, and to be sunk in voluptuousness and indolence. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 This brown-skinned, broad-shouldered priest, hitherto condemned to the austere virginity of the cloister, was quivering and boiling in the presence of this night scene of love and voluptuousness. Notre-Dame De Paris This noble yearning is at the same time and for the same beings a chastisement and a reward; a voluptuousness full of expiation; a chastisement for faults committed, a recompense for sorrows borne! The Memoirs of Victor Hugo The sight of his form troubled the voluptuousness of this mediation. Madame Bovary He combated the three evils, restlessness, injuriousness, voluptuousness by settling the Deity in his spirit, by subjecting his senses, and by destroying desire. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance They were a race corrupted by a bad government and a bad religion, long renowned for skill in the arts of voluptuousness, and tolerant of all the caprices of sensuality. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 His conception of love unites all the voluptuousness of the Oriental haram, and all the gallantry of the chivalric tournament, with all the pure and quiet affection of an English fireside. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 In the sacred precinct, and in its dependencies, all breathed of voluptuousness, all spoke to the senses. History of Phoenicia The voluptuousness of his grief was, however, incomplete, for he had no one near him to share it, and he paid visits to Madame Lefrancois to be able to speak of her. Madame Bovary To Laverick it was all—like a dream—the laughing crowd, the flushed men and bright-eyed women, the lowered lights, the air of voluptuousness which somehow seemed to have enfolded the place. Havoc Words may not be used to tell of the voluptuousness of the dance. Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ It was wanting in the noble forms, the still cheerfulness and repose of Grecian beauty, modest even in its voluptuousness. The Daughter of an Empress At that moment Thais appeared, her hair unloosed and streaming over her shoulders, barefooted, and clad in a clumsy coarse garment which seemed redolent with divine voluptuousness merely from having touched her body. Thais Thus sang the magician; and all who were present went like birds unawares into the net of his artful and melancholy voluptuousness. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none This abundant health, this perfection of the animal in a being in whom voluptuousness took the place of thought, must be a remarkable fact in the eyes of physiologists. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Johnson added, 'I respect Dodd for thus speaking the truth; for, to be sure, he had for several years enjoyed a life of great voluptuousness. Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Yet, oddly enough, he experienced neither voluptuousness nor sexual pride. A Voyage to Arcturus Every face was joyous, every head was crowned with flowers, except those of the Pharisees, who refused to wear the wreaths, regarding them as a symbol of Roman voluptuousness and vice. Herodias The only one to resist the "melancholy voluptuousness" of his art, is the spiritually conscientious one—the scientific specialist of whom we read in the discourse entitled "The Leech". Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none The walls, with their burden of people, seemed to be giving way beneath the howlings of terror and mystic voluptuousness. Salammbo Their nobles, devoted to gluttony and voluptuousness, never visited the church, but the matins and the mass were read over to them by a hurrying priest in their bedchambers, before they rose, themselves not listening. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science It has cushions which simply reek of oriental voluptuousness and cruelty. Dope Towards himself man is the cruellest animal; and in all who call themselves "sinners" and "bearers of the cross" and "penitents," do not overlook the voluptuousness in their plaints and accusations! Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Some sensation of voluptuousness and some sensation of tedium: these have as yet been their best contemplation. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none |
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