| 单词 | amatory |
| 例句 | Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z For the last five months Lina had complained of imaginary ailments, preferring her husband’s herbal cures to his amatory attentions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He seemed to have no great amatory impatience. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z To be hopelessly in love with someone who will never love you back can seem like the amatory equivalent of waterboarding – a continual feeling of emotional suffocation, without even the promise of death's release. Clip joint: unrequited love 2011-02-09T17:08:16Z Roughly half the programme was given over to secular cantatas by Vivaldi describing the amatory turmoils of shepherds and shepherdesses. Prina/Il Pomo d'Oro/Minasi – review 2012-11-07T16:53:00Z Meanwhile, her romantic engagement with an archivist in the house of an up‑and-coming magistrate adds both an amatory and a political dimension to the tale. The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis – review 2013-05-09T08:01:01Z Go ahead and take it to the next level with these two, minus the amatory innuendo. Stop shipping the duos on "Abbott Elementary" and "The Bear." TV needs deeper workplace friendship 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Giovanni's amatory conquests pour forth as data on a computer printout. Don Giovanni; La bohème; English Music festival – review 2012-06-09T23:06:16Z Despite the let-it-all-hang-out philosophy today, I still believe this desire for privacy is a general human feeling – look at the outraged squalls of celebrities who have been outed in some amatory misdoing or other. Is it OK to sell love letters? 2012-12-15T18:04:01Z Go ahead and take it to the next level with these two, minus the amatory innuendo. Stop shipping the duos on "Abbott Elementary" and "The Bear." TV needs deeper workplace friendship 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z And while tenacious in assigned tasks, he is not particularly desirous of anything but amatory and gustatory pleasures. Exhibition Review: ‘Exquisitely Evil,’ Bond Villains at International Spy Museum 2012-11-15T23:35:07Z Even the pair’s eventual accommodation to this amatory obstacle succumbs to the prince’s other big difference from his fellow men: his immortality. ‘The Age of Ice’: locked into an eternity of cold 2013-08-08T19:44:22Z With what “late-assembled court of morals”? “Biography is a collection of holes tied together with string, and nowhere more so than with the sexual and amatory life,” he writes. Julian Barnes, Playing Against Character, Writes About a Character of Action and Appetite 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z One might see this as some profound metaphor for the human condition, or at least its amatory component. T?te ? T?te festival 2010-08-11T22:00:00Z He is quite impressed with his amatory skills, which makes one of them. Review: ‘Let the Sunshine In’ Shows the Complex Radiance of Juliette Binoche 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Lapine, making his feature film debut, doesn’t have the technique to turn this amatory whirl into a lyrical roundelay. Where you can (and can’t) watch eight of Julian Sands' most notable movie roles 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z To the English ear it might sound like an inadvisable amatory practice involving gasoline, but in its original language it actually means a treasure chamber of the mind. Clive James: 'The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life' 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z The contest precipitates a flurry of events: literary, amatory, monetary and minatory. ‘A Drop of Ink’: Another haunted writing session at a Swiss villa 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z He acted his little comedy to the end—like the cockbird who has started his amatory dance to fascinate the timid hen, he was perhaps too busy to observe results till the dance had finished. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Most of them are of a patriotic nature; a good many are amatory; and two or three seem to have no business in the collection at all. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Of or pertaining to a lover or to love making; amatory; as, amatorial verses. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Looking within herself, she discovered that behind her light estimate of his amatory ravings there was a genuine liking for the lad. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Ticidas and Anser, mentioned by Ovid among his own precursors in amatory poetry, also belong to this generation. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He translated into Italian Plutarch’s Lives of Cinna and Lucullus, and was the author of some poetical pieces, amatory and religious—strambotti and canzonetti—as well as of rhetorical prose compositions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z He writes better about Manet than about an amatory encounter of yesteryear. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z On another occasion he went fifteen miles on foot merely to cast an amatory glance at a certain lady as she sat at the window, and this lady was married to a second husband. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z He sealed it with an amatory device, and, calling up a servant in his confidence, told him to carry it over, and then took his place in my window to watch the result. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Although there is danger of generalizing too widely from literary indications, we may believe that chivalric society was appreciably marked by formal amatory disciplines. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z In "Women in Love" are four young people, two men and two women, whose chief interest, for them and for us, is in amatory relations. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z It was half filled with amatory verses by juvenile rhymesters, and with tasteless insipid drawings in water colours, by boarding-school misses: which drawings my Dulcinea persisted in calling paintings. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z There, there, honey," said Mr. Pottle, hastily, with an appropriate amatory gesture, "you shall have your pup. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z I think it is Suidas who says that these pretty little animals, called white mice, are very amatory, and have a strong odour, but this must be only to their mates. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z Besides this, the ideas themselves were conventional; the poet’s amatory religion was often assumed; he chose a lady to whom he offered his poetical homage. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The speech of men, the lowing of beasts, the loud-sounding music are just as inaudible to him as the amatory whispers of snails, or the philosophic discourses of the tiny ants are, perhaps, to us. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z Foolish and inane in amatory “attentions” to young ladies, George was no fool. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z I do not mean the Kodak fiend, Who takes snap-shots of ladies dipping, And gloats o'er sundry views he's gleaned Of amatory couples "tripping." Mr. Punch at the Seaside 2011-08-24T02:00:23.487Z His poems are brief and mainly amatory in character. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z The idea of the lover as the servant of his mistress was also taken first of all from the Latin amatory poets. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z And, moreover, they are productive of moisture, and cleansing, but they dim the eyes, and excite the amatory propensities. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The most bucolic hearts were burnt By Burns' amatory glances; The most suburban spinsters learnt To welcome his abrupt advances; When Burns was on his knee, 'twas said, They wished that they were there instead! More Misrepresentative Men 2011-07-20T02:00:14.390Z The author also did me the honor to spell my name wrong, and did the famous Greek amatory poet the honor of mentioning among my illustrated work, “Odes to Anacreon.” In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z His verse is satirical and amatory in character. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z The student of language finds the rich vocabulary of the fabliaux much more attractive to him than the conventionality of the serious religious and amatory poems of the same age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z The course was interrupted by amatory interludes whenever the wayside boskage was propitious, so it was not before the outspanning took place that the wagons were reached. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z He knew that Sobèdè’s return home might be expected in a few months, and he determined, therefore, to overcome Mampitizili’s resistance to his amatory advances with as little further delay as possible. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z The Parsonage grounds were rich with trees, and thus afforded suitable localities for amatory dalliance. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z His versification is rugged, and his style obscure and fantastic, but his poems, both religious and amatory, contain much beauty of thought. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z Ruth got over being worried by amatory bouts with the wounded poilus after a while. Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z The interior of the Didascalion, the seven class-rooms, the little theatre, and the peristyle of the court, were decorated with ninety-two frescoes designed to sum up the whole of amatory teaching. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z Dr. Nott is in trepidation for the domestic morality of the noble poet; yet some of these amatory sonnets may have been addressed to his betrothed. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z We find amatory toasts next in order, and of this class quote three examples:— “The fairest work of nature—women.” Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z His verse is principally amatory, and some of his songs are perfect of their kind. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z Large numbers are parodies of amatory or obscene songs, beginning with nearly the same words and intended to be sung to the same tunes. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z There is not much of this in the amatory or convivial poetry of the moderns. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Of his amatory poems, many are graceful, most ingenious. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z He subscribes to the circulating library, reads a series of novels aloud to his wife, and illustrates every amatory passage with a kiss. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z Such criticisms imply a conception of drama in which the women are conventionally seen through a roseate mist of amatory emotion. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Of satires, and small poems in the witty or amatory style, there was no end. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z It was thus that Lucretius was enabled to embody in Roman verse the whole Epicurean system, and Catullus to imitate or translate the lighter amatory and epigrammatic compositions of the Greeks. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Shakespeare was long renowned as the amatory poet of the nation by many who had not learned to distinguish the bard among his dramatic brethren. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z "A little ingenuity and artifice," as Mrs. Malaprop would say, is well enough; but Cowley, in his amatory poetry, is all artifice. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z But we catch a very different amatory note, and that of the most personal and earnest kind, when the voice of Burns, and then the voice of Byron, were heard in English poetry. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z This was our English Surrey; one of the earliest and most elegant of our amatory poets, and the lover of the Fair Geraldine. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z Many amatory poets have tried to imitate this celebrated ode; but most of them have failed of success. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z During the visit, while inspecting some muslin, the lady contrived to indulge the amatory merchant with a glimpse of her large dark eyes, which completely enchanted her unconscious lord. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z They are curious on this account, as well as for being the solitary example of amatory verse contained in his works. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z For these, for the most part, were amatory exercises, not real breathing and burning love-poems; dainty works of art sometimes, but not sicklied o’er with the pale cast of amatory passion. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z Of Ariosto's amatory poems, so full of spirit, grace, and a sort of earnest triumphant tenderness, it is impossible to doubt that the objects were real. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z I am no philanthropist, nor am I a fool, and you yourself seem willing to acquit me of any amatory intentions. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z Prudence to the point of cowardice is the amatory characteristic of your sort.... The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z The only catastrophe, however, which her falsehood occasioned, was the production of a long elegy, in imitation of Theocritus, which concludes Lord Lansdown's amatory effusions. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z The plot consists of episodes, amatory, humorous and otherwise, in the lives of people who are not always in their proper element. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z The amatory poetry of Provence had the same source with the national poetry of Spain; both were derived from the Arabians. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z So with the social and amatory enterprises of the human inhabitants of the dry country; the phenomenon of six inches of rain or otherwise makes all the difference. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z Among them was an amatory epistle in verse, from the Prince de Marsillac to the fair duchess. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z But Cowley's amatory verse disproves itself, without the help of a prologue. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z His sonnets are mainly the amatory effusions which were becoming fashionable everywhere at this time and which Shakespeare indulged in in his turn a little later. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z It has followed as a natural consequence, that elegant as are the amatory effusions of Lorenzo, they are less celebrated, less popular, than his descriptive and moral poems. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z It is amatory poetry, not love-poetry; but in its own kind, it is as good as can be found. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z If at times, as in the drinking songs, and in some few of the amatory, the expression is free and outspoken, vice is never glossed over or covered with a false sentimentality. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z Listening to her voice reminded him of the love-songs he had heard the guzlari chant on winter evenings —amatory poems which heated the blood like long draughts of strong wine. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z After this, I cast a glance at the beauty of the handkerchief, and beheld an amatory couplet worked upon one of its two borders,16 and another, of a similar kind, on its other border. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments "Only a friend of mine," answered Miss Popkiss, with an air of showing herself not dependent for amatory attentions upon casual customers. A Poached Peerage And, as usual, his verse writing was largely amatory. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z Of marvellous beauty and exquisite wit, she became, after certain amatory adventures, the mistress, and subsequently by secret marriage the wife, of Cinq Mars, and, as such, was persecuted by the terrible Cardinal Richelieu. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 The songs of the Egyptian are amatory, and of the German varied as the accomplishments of the nation,—but in their moral tone earnest and pure. How to Observe Morals and Manners The Proven�al and Italian poetry was, with the exception of some pieces of political satire, almost exclusively amatory, in the most fantastic and affected fashion. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. He began to reproach himself for having engaged her in his amatory mission when her life was at stake. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers In addition to these were a number of amatory verses, some of them at least as well calculated to scandalise as anything in the posthumous works of Mr. Little. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z "Come on!" he grunted mournfully, knowing he was bidding farewell to hopes managerial as well as amatory. The Gay Adventure A Romance At last one said to the other 'Profecto formosa puella;' whereupon my sister answered 'sic satis;' then were they much afraid, fancying that she had also understood their former amatory talk. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. I went down to the inn in that state of pleasing bewilderment which characterises the first stage of the amatory complaint. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 He is the father of descriptive and amatory poetry. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Outside of light verse, his only themes were love and patriotism, and here we have the amatory poet indulging his genius to the full. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z It isn't for nothing that a very popular song tells of a Little Grey Home in the West where people go to amatory bliss 'when the toil of the long day is o'er.' Years of Plenty Béranger's poetical works consist entirely of Chansons, political, amatory, bacchanalian, satirical, philosophical after a fashion, and of almost every other complexion that the song can possibly take. A Short History of French Literature On the other hand, Ariosto's evident sincerity is in striking contrast to the cold, intellectual, amatory verse of Lorenzo de' Medici, which was, in truth, but an �sthetic diversion for that brilliant prince. Women of the Romance Countries (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 6 (of 10) There was no prejudice in the ancient days of Persia against a strenuous as well as an amatory life for womankind. Oriental Women There is no idealizing of the amatory emotions,--such as we are accustomed to in novels which are not "realistic"--thereby affording an opportunity to ignore the lower aspect. Roman Women Donne's series of "Holy Sonnets" was one of the few Elizabethan sequences, or cycles, which dealt with other than amatory subjects. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The bear cubs lick each other's paws with an amatory singing that is something between the purr of a cat and the grunt of a pig. The Story of the Trapper Toasts and sentiments of every fashion went round, and we were political, literary, arbitrary, amatory, sentimental, and satiric by turns. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Convivial and amatory sentiments have also been ruled out. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. Livia and Agrippina the Elder were exceptions; but the rule was, and has been in all history, that the activity of women in State affairs was accompanied by an abundance of meretricious amatory intrigues. Roman Women After dinner, the martial and amatory airs which had been played during the banquet were succeeded by dance music, and the guests flocked into the dancing-room. Pretty Michal But he retained also from his prototype, and new modelled, the tendency to take "society" and the manners, especially the amatory manners, of society very much as his province. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) I only wish that my amatory concerns had so promising an appearance. Olla Podrida As he had already written "Thanatopsis" and other fine poems, it is rather surprising that there are so few gleams of the true poetic fire in these amatory verses. Home Life of Great Authors Antony, whose amatory experiences were as varied as they were numerous, was at one time engaged in an intrigue with Fulvia, then the wife of Clodius. Roman Women Some are simply amatory effusions of an ordinary character, full of a lover's despair and complaint. Spenser I agree with George Moore that Thackeray, in the interests of mid-Victorian morality, suppressed many of her characteristics, telling us too little of her amatory temperament. Ivory Apes and Peacocks On chimney-piece and fireplace throughout the castle there are numerous sentimental devices in which Cupids and flaming hearts and torches figure largely, with the occasional accompaniment of verses and mottoes of an equally amatory nature. Legends & Romances of Brittany So absorbed was he in this amatory botany that he seemed to forget my existence. Alaska Days with John Muir "Some One I Know" is a lightly amatory piece of tuneful rhythm. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Fugitive pieces, chiefly amatory, meet us of real sprightliness, or grace, or tenderness. Spenser For things started in this establishment–by things one means in general, trouble; variegated of course as to domestic, financial, social, educational, amatory, and at times political. In the Heart of a Fool In the shady paths under the tall trees, evidently amatory couples were strolling or sitting close together. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales They are such rustics as ate fat bacon and drank 'heavy ale and new;'46 not the imaginary personages who exchanged amatory civilities in the old-fashioned pastorals ridiculed by Pope and Gay. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Mrs. Winifred Virginia Jordan, without one of whose delightful verses no amateur publication can really compete, contributes a sparkling succession of amatory anapaests entitled "Dear." Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 In the same way, the use of amatory phraseology is often treated as the intrusion of the sex element in a sphere in which it has no proper place. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development The deluge itself could not wash out the amatory feelings with which the pious males regard those fair creatures who were once supposed to be the Devil's chief agents on earth. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Goethe, though fertile in poems of the amatory and contemplative class, was somewhat chary of putting forth his strength in the ballad. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 There are some who, in seeking liberation from the ignominious conditions of our present amatory life, are wishing to rid marriage from all legal bonds, and are pointing to Free-love as the way of escape. The Truth About Woman "The Sunshine Girl" is an amatory panegyric of no small skill and polish, though not strikingly novel in sentiment or expression. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The language of devotion and of amatory passion is often identical, and seems to serve equally well for either purpose. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development From the moral point of view, these pieces may, perhaps, come under Spenser's condemnation of the rhymers who sing of amatory adventures in which love is no sooner asked than it is granted. The Balladists Famous Scots Series There were no women in the kitchen, but there was an amatory stewardess, fat and forty, upon whom the factitious technique of the saloon fell with singular insipidity. The Vagrant Duke Even many of the amatory duels are not really fights between rivals. The Truth About Woman "When I Gaze on Thee," by Kathleen Foster Smith, is an amatory poem of much grace and fluency. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Religious observances provide an alternative, into which the amatory instinct can be easily and naturally diverted. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Allow no amatory excitement, no frenzied, delirious intoxication with it; for its violence, like every other, must react only to exhaust and paralyze itself by its own excesses. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society No compositions in verse remain under his name, except a few epigrams—amatory, affectionate, and of great poetical beauty. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History The characteristic features of the amatory dances of birds are well known; they may be witnessed frequently during the pairing season. The Truth About Woman As an amatory poet, Mr. Kleiner shows much delicacy of sentiment, refinement of language, and appreciation of metrical values; his efforts in this direction entitle him to a high place among amateur bards. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Such people fail to recognise that their attractiveness lies in the hidden appeal to amatory feeling, and owe their origin to the suppressed or perverted sexual passion of their author. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development They are generally amazingly addicted to amatory pleasures; each man scarcely contenting himself with a multitude of concubines: from unnatural vices they are free. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens A few of the works, in octavo, were sufficiently amatory. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance In other species the croaking sacs of the males, which were previously used for amatory callings, become enlarged to form cradles for the young. The Truth About Woman Book i.—All the Elegies in Book i., except the last two, are amatory. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors This is the state antecedent to falling in love, and if an object presents himself or herself, the torrent of emotion is directed into amatory passion. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development In the child, the moods of the amatory sentiment are exceedingly variable. The Sexual Life of the Child But few passed them by and those were also seekers after solitude, with no eyes for their co-religionists in the amatory gospel. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar “My compliments to Hamburg,” I replied; and then we all struck up an amatory chorus of the “Fare thee well, love” species, that fitted properly with our position. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France I expected to be even more interested in the essay on "The Equipoise of Passion," remembering the intense character of his amatory verse. A Romantic Young Lady A literature rich in ballads, in war-songs, in satire, and, above all, in amatory poetry, amused the leisure of the knights and ladies whose fortified mansions adorned the banks of the Rhone and Garonne. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) On the whole, however, the amatory manifestations of childhood are of brief duration. The Sexual Life of the Child My soul recoiled from amatory emotions, or indulged in them only as a remembrance. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness By the middle of the thirteenth century the spring, and the nightingales, and the flowering meadows had become a commonplace of amatory and emotional poetry. Dante: His Times and His Work Ah, yes, that amatory lyre of his is an uncommonly adaptable instrument. The Dop Doctor He was still nervously anxious about his literary reputation, and not content with the fame which he still possessed as a dramatist, was determined to be renowned as a satirist and an amatory poet. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) The Venus Urania of Ramdohr, for instance, a work on the psychology of love, emphasises the frequency of amatory sentiments in children. The Sexual Life of the Child The Provençal and Italian poetry was, with the exception of some pieces of political satire, almost exclusively amatory, in the most fantastic and affected fashion. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 They show the influence of Drayton's Idea, which had appeared a few months before; in that collection also, it is to be observed, there had appeared amatory sonnets addressed to a young man. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Agnostic and Churchman, denier and believer, have split on the same amatory rock. The Dop Doctor He has left a number of pieces on amatory subjects, including songs and sonnets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" In such cases, the results of early amatory inclinations may even be good. The Sexual Life of the Child Herrick and Carew are only sorry that the amatory fashion of this world passeth; they do not in the least undervalue it while it lasts, or sneer at it when it is gone. A History of Elizabethan Literature Universal opinion has given its verdict in an epithet: and just as many people speak of the volatile Frenchman, the stolid Dutchman, the amatory Italian, they talk of the proud Spaniard. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia That's what it is to be Eyes and No Eyes in amatory affairs. The Dop Doctor When a king is governed by a woman merely through his amatory propensities, good government is not probable, though even then there are exceptions. The Subjection of Women According to Sanford Bell, unfavourable consequences to intellectual development cannot, as a general rule, be attributed to the early amatory inclinations of childhood. The Sexual Life of the Child Not the least attractive part of Cléopatre to some people will be that very "Phébus," or amatory conceit, which made the next ages scorn it. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 As I stood in the porch, I overheard your amatory sighs and groans which sounded in my ears like Boreas wooing Vulcan through a cranny in a chimney-corner. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 Many men of rank and education, who did not regard themselves as of the world of letters, penned pleasant verse, much of it being of an amatory character based upon that of the Italians. Tudor and Stuart Love Songs Many a man thinks he perfectly understands women, because he has had amatory relations with several, perhaps with many of them. The Subjection of Women I may also point out that in the autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, &c., of celebrated persons, we find much information regarding premature amatory sentiments. The Sexual Life of the Child Alcidonis has a fairy protectress, if not exactly godmother, who gives him the flasks in question to use in amatory adventures. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 They themselves admit that I write amatory verse with sufficient sprightliness and skill. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Of the Elizabethan amatory verses only a small portion has been transmitted to us. Tudor and Stuart Love Songs Then he went back in fancied security, and found himself the centre of all those amatory ovations which Miss Todd and Miss Gauntlet had prepared for him. The Bertrams Once there was a figure in a skirt—straight, single lines for legs—Jack's girl—scrawled in evident derision of a neighbor student's amatory weakness. Chimney-Pot Papers Nothing could be less amatory than such a crisis. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 I now come to certain other of my verses, which according to them are amatory; but so vilely and coarsely did they read them as to leave no impression save one of disgust. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura From the amatory verses produced by seventy-one writers during the reign of Henry the Eighth and down to those of the early Georges one hundred and thirteen appear in this love anthology. Tudor and Stuart Love Songs "We are too long betrothed, and too confident, each in the good faith of the other, to think it needful to kill my poor slaves in bearing amatory billets." The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 She glanced instinctively at her husband's picture, speaking as one having first-hand information on all amatory matters. The Privet Hedge Think of it uneasily and wonder if his wife Soon will know the amatory secrets of your life! The Book of Humorous Verse Wedded life is not one long amatory poem with recurrent rhymes of love and dove, and kiss and bliss. A Rivermouth Romance Devices of the mediaeval period were parted into two divisions—religious and amatory. The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel For the muddle into which he plunged the amatory affairs of the inhabitants of Downside was terrible. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 15, 1914 With the exception of "Kaiser Barbarossa," and two or three other ballads, the amatory poems of Rückert have attained the widest popularity among his countrymen. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Their subject-matter is bucolic or amatory, and, if devotional, their classicism deprives it of the accent of piety. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation The "Juvenilia" were neither more nor less pagan in tone than the rest of the amatory literature of the age framed on the model of the classics. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 In one of the rooms is a chimney-piece covered with a variety of amatory devices and mottoes:—a Cupid blinded, holding a lighted torch, motto "Ce qui me donne la vie me cause la mort." Brittany & Its Byways When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young chief’s excitement was almost beyond control. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson His collection of amatory poems entitled Liebesfrühling contains some of the sunniest idyls in any language. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 It next came to mean a short poem containing some single thought pointedly expressed, the subjects being very various—amatory, convivial, moral, eulogistic, satirical, humorous, etc. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. In plying him with questions as to himself and his deeds, which developed a mood ardently vainglorious, Anne skilfully led Koltsoff's trend of thought from amatory channels. Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport His temperament was certainly affectionate—if not absolutely amatory: he certainly never missed an opportunity where a kiss was practicable. Pickwickian Manners and Customs Of the amatory poetry of Hafiz we must be very sparing in our citations, though it forms the staple of the “Divan.” Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson Every pentameter of the amatory poems and the first fifteen Heroides ends in a disyllable. The Last Poems of Ovid "I hope my breath is not offensive from drink, Mrs. Fay," said Doyle, in an amatory whisper to the leg of the table. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Instead, their unsentimental wooing was a sort of amatory bargain day for Catie, who must have the best sort of husband to be found on the domestic market. The Brentons Of amatory egotism the Tuism, Which further to explain would be a truism. Don Juan They were the somewhat affected amatory effusions of that superb woman, Mrs Causand, whom I have described in the early part of this life. Rattlin the Reefer Neither do I discover the source of thy cachinnation, seeing that the song is amatory and not comic. Jacob Faithful Lucretius’ Death is thought to be too free-spoken for Publication, I believe; not so much in a religious, as an amatory, point of View. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II They turn the psychology of the courtly amatory poets into narrative. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature She could repay each amatory look you lent With interest, and in turn was wont with rigour To exact of Cupid's bills the full amount At sight, nor would permit you to discount. Don Juan A portrait was bad enough without the added embarrassment of an amatory artist. White Ashes To be sure, this was not by any means his first amatory venture. Quin As a connoisseur in amatory matters has said, a pair of gloves is a totally different thing from a single one. The Child of Pleasure For the frank amatory life of the Teuton student begins early. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life So like a spiritual pit-a-pat, Or tiptoe of an amatory Miss, Gliding the first time to a rendezvous, And dreading the chaste echoes of her shoe. Don Juan About five o'clock, Charles Wilkinson called, as he often did, through inclinations in which the gastronomic and the amatory were about evenly divided. White Ashes All their poems are mostly short, and confined to amatory, laudatory, or vituperative compositions, called forth by the momentary circumstances in which the authors happened to be placed. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature No other shape of vase is to be compared with this for elegance; in that diaphanous prison, the flowers seemed to etherealise and had more the air of a religious than an amatory offering. The Child of Pleasure Fräulein's lack not only of amatory complaisance but of social polish or even facility kept him dubious and disconcerted. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life The few amatory scenes are conducted with the most rigid propriety; and when there occurs a lover's quarrel, the parties hurl high moral truths at each other, instead of idle reproaches. Border and Bastille It is not simply "a man," or even "an amatory hero" that is portrayed in "Don Juan." Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers It should be remembered that this people as a race show somewhat less of reticence in matters amatory than we are accustomed to. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View If he was only a pretence and a sham, then all the amatory poetry that has been written since his time, intellectual or analytic, passionate or sensuous, is a pretence and a sham. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. He says, for instance, that we laugh at love and amatory adventures because they abound in deceptions! History of English Humour, Vol. 2 What object could their author have in thus uselessly playing the hypocrite, when amatory and bacchanalian choruses would not only have been more consonant with his own feelings, but doubtless more acceptable to the world? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy She could repay each amatory look you lent With interest, and, in turn, was wont with rigour To exact of Cupid's bills the full amount At sight, nor would permit you to discount. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 One or two, with their morbid imaginations touched by his seeming generosities, made wistful amatory advances which he promptly repelled. Never-Fail Blake On the other hand, Ariosto's evident sincerity is in striking contrast to the cold, intellectual, amatory verse of Lorenzo de' Medici, which was, in truth, but an æsthetic diversion for that brilliant prince. Women of the Romance Countries He appealed to the senses, referred entirely to some particular and trivial coincidence, and often put amatory weaknesses under contribution to give it force. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 The Apollonians preferred wide skirts and the pas seul of an amatory nature; it caused shrieks of laughter, and at last even the women and wees could not prevent joining in the sport. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative What one of them can tell you a thing concerning the original osculation—that primary amatory congress which was the beginning of the beginning?— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z The indelicacy we now meet with is almost entirely of an amatory character, and not quite of so low a description as that previously in use. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Systematic Lovers Robert Burns was a systematic lover of anything in petticoats, and has left such a mass of amatory correspondence that his biographer was sorely perplexed. The Spinster Book References of a somewhat amatory character often make sayings acceptable, which for their intrinsic merit would scarcely raise a smile, and Lamb soon seriously deplored the loss of this serviceable assistance. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 These are mainly amatory, and all indelicate, while some are as coarse as anything in French literature. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 It is curious to note that while Shakspeare and Nash both promise "graver work" and "better lines," they alike select amatory themes for their first offerings. The Choise of Valentines Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo It bears marks of an early time in its words being coarsely indelicate, but not amatory. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Francis, however, did not value her society and counsel solely for political reasons; he was also fond of conversing with her on literature, and at times they composed amatory verses together. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) Southey is not generally amatory in his humour, and therefore we appreciate the more the following effusions, which he facetiously attributes to Abel Shufflebottom. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Foolish and inane in amatory "attentions" to young ladies, George was no fool. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 As he advances in age, he feels the inconveniences of his amatory propensities, and endeavours to conquer them by chastity. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch Another writer accounts for the intensity of the amatory sentiments in Robert Burns by the strength of his imagination. Practical Essays There are a few curious stories in which amatory matters play only a subordinate part or none at all, though it must be confessed that this last is a rare thing. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) And Stephen sang one of the touching amatory ballads which had emanated so copiously from the unfortunate Albigenses of the land of Oc. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars On the part of Beatrice there is misunderstanding of the amatory verses he writes at this period and she withholds her greeting. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 Though not consisting of sonnets, however, it has the same amatory and constant allusions to Laura as the greater part of his poetry. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch DOES— The nightingale respond to its mate; caroling its amatory challenge from afar; across brake and dale and glen; beyond a "Dim old forest" the earth bathed in the silver light of the harvest moon! History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico For me, in my simple way, I have been most delighted with a correspondence of letters, all original and amatory, between Lucretia Borgia and Cardinal Bembo, preserved there. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals One of these amatory letters I have recovered. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 A boy can forget his amatory troubles playing baseball; but a girl can't find any particular distraction in doing fancy work. The Ragged Edge He never tired of relating his amatory exploits, and I need not say how dismal that kind of narrative is to all but the narrator. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales He could ill afford to forsake a religion which allowed him so pleasantly to compound for his amatory indulgences by the estrapade414 and a zeal for orthodoxy. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) The air is charged with amatory numbers— Soft madrigals, and dreamy lovers' lays. Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs By a passionate relation of the amatory scenes which occurred between Oroonoko and his wife, she touched a key particularly calculated to excite contemporary English sympathy. A History of English Prose Fiction My son is better versed in amatory floriculture than I am. The Baronet's Bride It was at a little station in Wyoming that he, a convalescent from love, had for the first time in weeks managed to look up and take a bit of amatory nourishment. The Honorable Percival In 1647 he published Hesperides, a collection of small poems of great lyric beauty, Anacreontic, pastoral, and amatory, but containing much that is coarse and indelicate. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Are not his Odes the amatory praises of a boy? Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals Her brother was always drifting in and out of amatory entanglements—the hunter or the hunted—and he was not much the worse for it so far as Laura could see. Nightfall Wildgoose promptly falls in love with a fascinating damsel-errant, Julia Townsend; and the various adventures, religious, picaresque, and amatory, are embroiled and disembroiled with very fair skill in character and fairer still in narrative. The English Novel Since In matters amatory, there is no a priori reasoning possible. Hints for Lovers His Astrophel and Stella is a collection of amatory poems, disclosing his passion for Lady Rich, the sister of the Earl of Essex. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction He was also an amatory lyrist, but closed his career as the writer of some fine religious verses, notably this "Death-Bed Confession." A Celtic Psaltery There is no amatory affection that can stand the strain of a separation of six months in conjunction with six thousand miles. Through stained glass The author of a collection of elegies and sonnets, Mr. Scott Waring, in his "Tour to Sheeraz," has exhibited a specimen of the king's amatory productions. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 In fact, In matters amatory and maternal, woman is the truly combative animal. Hints for Lovers We have amatory verse poems of longing for home and absent dear ones, praise of love and wine, elegies on the dead, laments over the uncertainty of life. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Women must be as free as men to mould their own amatory life. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society One day he was on his way by the back yards to an amatory interview. The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories In spite of many amatory adventures, often very complicated and disturbing, Volodya had done splendidly at the university, and had taken a very good degree. The Darling and Other Stories That is to say; Unless husband and wife both avoid infection, both can catch amatory fevers. Hints for Lovers What was for me an ordinary amatory episode was for her an absolute revolution in her life. Love Confessions, so called, were usually amatory episodes in the lives of the authors, highly spiced and colored by emotions often not felt at the time, but rather inspired by memory. The "Goldfish" Thus the night passed in eating and amatory sport. Romance of the Rabbit The discourses of the Dervish are in the main theological or philosophical; the lyrics, which are interposed between the discourses or discussions, are amatory. Robert Browning For No man will play second fiddle to any body or any thing; and The realm amatory is a monarchial, not a republican, one. Hints for Lovers Our dear Baron's exalted ideas do not prevent him from going on Saturdays to Vukolovka on amatory expeditions. Love "There are no poems on wine equal to my own, and to my amatory compositions all others must yield," he himself has said. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young chief's excitement was almost beyond control. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 In Persian Poetry much that at first sight might be taken for amatory has in its inner meaning a mystical theological sense. Robert Browning The impulse was to write a certain kind of amatory verse, for which the fashionable medium was pastoral; not to write pastoral for its own sake. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Mien-yaun went home in an amatory ecstasy, and immediately exploded four bunches of crackers and blazed a Bengal light, as a slight token of his infinite happiness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 There are compliments in verse to one of the female wits who were writing then for the stage, Mrs. Trotter, author of the Fatal Friendship; there are amatory explanations of all kinds. Gossip in a Library Of the amatory poetry of Hafiz we must be very sparing in our citations, though it forms the staple of the "Divan." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 Mr. Escot passed a sleepless night, the ordinary effect of love, according to some amatory poets, and arose with the first peep of day. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Lord Byron calls Thomas Moore the "British Catullus," referring to a volume of amatory poems published in 1808, under the pseudonym of "Thomas Little." Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Assuming the appropriate name of Little, our author published in 1801, a volume of poems, chiefly amatory, which, though they established his poetical reputation, were severely censured for their warmth and licentiousness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12. Many of the best poetical pieces of Lord Byron, having the least amatory feeling, have been strangely distorted by his calumniators, as if applicable to the lamented circumstances of his latter life. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 373, Supplementary Number The term spouse I select as somewhat less familiar than wife, somewhat more permanent than bride, and somewhat less amatory than the partner of my bosom. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 She herself was an adept in amatory science, but she was a trifle unsure of Mr. Strong. Bambi In comparison with his usual amatory speculations this was a big and serious undertaking. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale The air is charged with amatory numbers - Soft madrigals, and dreamy lovers' lays. Songs of a Savoyard At times I half suspected him of a convalescent amatory disappointment. Ponkapog Papers It was the report of a trial for breach of promise of marriage, giving the testimony in full, with fervid extracts from both the gentleman's and lady's amatory correspondence. Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories She drank two glasses of champagne, and a little more still after those, and amused herself in the evening with singing little amatory songs. The Woodlanders I wrote an amatory commentary upon the fourth book of the AEneid. Manon Lescaut In fact, the art of tendering the lips for these amatory salutes follows the principles laid down in treatises on legerdemain for performing the trick called Forcing a Card. A Pair of Blue Eyes His amatory songs and catches are such poetry as Orlando would have liked to hang on the boughs in the forest of Arden. Ponkapog Papers Age and obesity had made her inapt for love, but she took a keen interest in the amatory affairs of the young. Moon and Sixpence But she, slyly looking in another direction, swayed herself backwards and forwards on her hand as it clutched the rail of the bridge; till, moved by amatory curiosity, she turned her eyes critically upon him. Jude the Obscure In the fleeting amatory adventures of the past weeks and months, he had seen so many—some genuine, some sham, all superfluous. The Indian Lily and Other Stories He began to narrate his adventures, amatory, military, bibulous, and other. An Enemy to the King In 1801 appeared his Poems: by the late Thomas Little, amatory verses which Byron read, and imitated in some of the silliest of his youthful lines. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 As earlier writers exaggerated the likeness of Canticles to Theocritus, so Maspero was at first inclined to exaggerate the affinity of Canticles to the old Egyptian amatory verse. The Book of Delight and Other Papers This half-year of amatory perturbation was of course unfavorable to literary labor. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Those poets have started up since your departure; William Hazlitt, your friend and mine, is putting to press a collection of verses, chiefly amatory, some of them pretty enough. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 He entered heartwhole on all his amatory adventures, and left them with indifference. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal It is like the sound produced by the filing of a mill-saw, and is said to be the amatory note of the male, being heard only during the season of incubation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Among the minor pieces of the "Village Minstrel" are the following, which are given as additional illustrations, the first of Clare's descriptive and the latter of his amatory manner:— Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" I have not yet been able to assure myself that his weird interpretation of the amatory mystery is any less worthy of consideration than our Western interpretations. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints A liberal criticism upon the several pieces, lyrical, heroical, amatory, and satirical, would be acceptable. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 Byronic was the only adjective applicable to his collaborator's style of amatory composition. A Man of Means The songs of Siam are either heroic or amatory; the former celebrating the martial exploits, the latter the more tender adventures, of heroes. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok In his amatory odes there is a delicacy of compliment not to be found in any other ancient poet. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes The individuality of the amatory passion is absolutely denied by science; and what is true of love at first sight is also true of hate: both are superindividual. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints His amatory and religious poems are occasionally marked by extreme beauty and tenderness. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities I do not mean to say that she confessed this amatory sentiment, but that she had it. The Virginians She simply prevented his amatory instincts from gathering strength vigorously to renew that search which men and women keep up incessantly until they find what they seek. The Great God Success Some of the women, who certainly could not be accused of any amatory love for him, shed tears to think that he should go, for he was full of kindness to them. Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs Philetas was not only a profound logician, but he affected to be an amatory poet. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius His works consist of sonnets and poems of a lyrical and amatory cast, and a translation of the Aeneid. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities There is no lack of couplets, religious, political, or amatory. Castilian Days The deeper central impulse came from the image of Gwendolen; but the thoughts it stirred would be imperfectly illustrated by a reference to the amatory poets of all ages. Daniel Deronda They were loving, but discreetly amatory, talking chiefly of things material, each flattering the other, and each hinting now and again at certain little circumstances of which a more accurate knowledge seemed to be desirable. The Eustace Diamonds I have heard those skilled in amatory matters say that the novice will do well to confine his attentions to young girls, avoiding married women or widows. Alone "The Land of Cockayne," a satirical poem, said to have been written by Michael of Kildare, belongs also to the thirteenth century, as well as many anonymous poems, both amatory and religious. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities It was here that he met his end—one tradition relating that he fell in the dark on his way to fetch a book, and another that his purpose had been less intellectually amatory. Roving East and Roving West The little amatory tales which formed Mrs. Haywood's chief stock in trade when she first set up for a writer of fiction, inherited many of the characteristics of the long-winded French romances. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood Are the wanton amatory glances of a few pairs of graceless eyes, twinkling through their cunning waters, to reflect so evil a light on a whole community? The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 A small mungoose kept peeping out at me from the roots of an old india-rubber tree, and aloft in the branches an amatory pair of hidden ringdoves were billing and cooing to each other. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter It was usually sung at the Symposia or literary festivals of the Greeks; in most cases its main subject was political; it afterwards assumed a plaintive or amatory tone. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities He listened with heightening color and tense nerves; the delirious languor of amatory music, and the delirium he had felt while under the spell of Marcia's beauty, passed away. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 As a writer of amatory romances and scandal novels, on the contrary, Mrs. Haywood was surpassed by none of her contemporaries. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood But we have already had occasion to remark on the laxity of Mr M.'s amatory notions. An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments In their habits they are very unsociable, and are only seen together during the amatory season. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter To many German scholars, who have rendered great services by their learning and genius, it is only the expression of physical love, like the amatory songs of Greece. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets At twenty-five or thirty he meets some young person, falls in love with her, thinks his amatory thermometer has reached the boiling-point and accordingly marries her. Tutt and Mr. Tutt The staple of her output during the first decade of authorship was the short amatory romance like "Love in Excess" and the "exemplary novels" just mentioned. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood Perhaps, however, it may be as well to defer the criticism to which this peculiar characteristic of Byron’s amatory effusions gives rise, until we shall come to estimate his general powers as a poet. The Life of Lord Byron The cooing of a pair of amatory pigeons overhead nearly lulled me to slumber. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter He knew that Argemone felt for him; how much it seemed presumptuous even to speculate, and as yet no golden-visaged meteor had arisen portentous in his amatory zodiac. Yeast: a Problem For in the Phaedrus, his subject respects intelligible beauty, and the participation of beauty pervading thence through all things; and in the Banquet it respects the amatory order. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato From Milan he writes, pronouncing its cathedral to be only a little inferior to that of Seville, and delighted with "a correspondence, all original and amatory, between Lucretia Borgia and Cardinal Bembo." Byron In reading the Memoirs of Mademoiselle, one forgets all the absurdity of all her long amatory angling for the handsome young guardsman, in pity for her deep despair. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 The lighter, especially the amatory poems, are much more successfully executed, and the primitive forms of the old Castilian versification are developed with considerable variety and beauty. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 The amatory is of course the favourite theme: sometimes it appears in dialogue, the rudest form, we are told, of the Drama. First Footsteps in East Africa They are chiefly erotic, or amatory, or in celebration of the enjoyments of social life. Mosaics of Grecian History But the political and the amatory plot are here inextricably entangled. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles The sixth and last wife of this amatory monarch was Catherine Parr. General History for Colleges and High Schools "You and I will lovers die, eh?" said the officer, with a twinkle, as he spelt out one of the amatory inscriptions. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore Why, in Heaven's name, this was the quickest thing in the amatory annals of civilization! Uneasy Money Many a one has taken the amatory tumble who would be glad to reason his way up and back. His Sombre Rivals He took a very amatory look at her after that hint. Nature and Human Nature Pickwick has been named as an exception to the rule, but even in Pickwick there are three or four sets of lovers, whose little amatory longings give a softness to the work. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Few of those who deserted their ships for amatory reasons had the luck—viewing the escapade from the sailor's standpoint—that attended the schoolmaster of the Princess Louisa. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore He was aware from the amatory failure in the dim old cathedral that Miss Genie was armed cap-a-fie. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story In saying which, however, he referred to the doings of the Molletts down at Kanturk, rather than to any amatory proceedings which might have taken place between the young man and his daughter. Castle Richmond There Leporello, the servant of Don Giovanni, is awaiting in discontented mood for the return of his master, who has entered the house in quest of amatory adventure. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Comrade Meissner could not have foreseen how this particular news would affect Jimmie; Meissner knew nothing about the strange adventure which had befallen his friend, the amatory convulsion which had shaken his soul. Jimmie Higgins A favourite resort of the amatory tar was that extra-parochial spot known as the Liberty of the Fleet, where the nuptial knot could be tied without the irksome formalities of banns or licence. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore Of course he had little schemes in his head, little amatory schemes for prænuptial enjoyment, which, in spite of his mature years, were exceedingly agreeable to him. He Knew He Was Right No, horrible are the everyday, accustomed trifles, these business-like, daily, commercial reckonings, this thousand year old science of amatory practice, this prosaic usage, determined by the ages. Yama: the pit Pigeons nestled on the shelf, cooing amatory ditties the live-long day, and cats like tigers crawled through a hole in the door, making night hideous with their caterwaulings. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 I could not distinguish his words, but I judged he was selling the "elixir of love," from his absurd amatory gestures—an elixir compounded, no doubt, of a little harmless eau sucre. Vendetta: a story of one forgotten Snapshot photography, comparative study of religions, folklore relative to various amatory and superstitious practices, contemplation of the celestial constellations. Ulysses He might praise, glorify, extol her to the uttermost, and be rewarded by her sweetest smiles; but for the pretty follies of amatory transport she had no taste. The Whirlpool No, horrible are the everyday, accustomed trifles; these business-like, daily, commercial reckonings; this thousand-year-old science of amatory practice; this prosaic usage, determined by the ages. Yama: the pit With execrable taste, he was fond of boasting by name of his amatory successes. The Days Before Yesterday The sonnet he borrowed from Petrarch, giving it the amatory tone common to the Italians. The Interdependence of Literature The oblong beauties clap their hands of grit, And brick-dust titterings on the breezes flit; Then down they rush in amatory race, Their dusty bridegrooms eager to embrace. Rejected Addresses Meanwhile, he recapitulated the scene in the concert hall, from the few anticipatory moments, when the 'cellist related amatory adventures, to the abrupt leave he had taken of Dove at the door of the building. Maurice Guest The letter hinted at an order upon his muse for amatory verse; delightful task, cheering prospect. Peg Woffington She went on with her commands, rising irrepressibly from one amatory climax to another. Poor Miss Finch The cornices are of silver, and decorated with mottoes from the amatory poets of the day, the letters of which are formed by precious stones. Antonina "In the case of a Countess, sir, the imagination is more excited," says Dr. Johnson, who had, I suppose, little opportunity of putting that doctrine for amatory intrigues to the test in actual practice. Under Two Flags Waller applies it to the case of one whose amatory verses, though they did not soften the heart of his mistress, yet won for the poet wide-spread fame. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable In fact, the genuine nature of the war placed it far above the need of any amatory embellishments. Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada Very similar tales of pursuit and metamorphosis, for amatory or other purposes, among the old legends of Wales, and in the “Arabian Nights,” as well as in the myths of Australians and Red Indians. Helen of Troy ‘Frankly and plainly,’ said Swithin, his voice trembling with a compound of scientific and amatory emotion that defies definition, ‘does she say seriously that she wishes me to go?’ Two on a Tower What care they, I ask myself, about returning to the natal nest rather than settling elsewhere, provided that they find some recipient for their amatory declarations? The Mason-Bees The words came from him in a hot stream, which for reckless passion by far outvied his erstwhile amatory address. The Trampling of the Lilies The sudden and amatory Seeders had, as it were, performed for her a miraculous piece of one-day laundry work. The Four Million "Why, you blessed little goose and angel," said Thatcher, with the bold, mixed metaphor of amatory genius, "don't you see—" "Ah, you don't like it,—it is not good?" The Story of a Mine "I assure you, my good Rebecca, my character and your own age and appearance are your security, if you should talk as loosely as an amatory poet." Guy Mannering In my Father's stern language, 'desertion' would very often mean no more than that the amatory pair had blamelessly changed their minds; but in some cases it meant more and worse than this. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Years passed before he came to realise that his grandiose edifice of a Church Universal would crumble to pieces if one of its foundation stones was to be an amatory intrigue of Henry VIII. Eminent Victorians Similarly, the classical dictionaries define "Milesiae fabulae" to be "licentious themes," "stories of an amatory or mirthful nature," or "ludicrous and indecent plays." Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance Apart from them there are only four non- elegiac pieces among the three hundred and eight amatory epigrams. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology He was still nervously anxious about his literary reputation, and, not content with the fame which he still possessed as a dramatist, was determined to be renowned as a satirist and an amatory poet. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 When Mrs. Mulrady began to be addressed orally, as well as by letter, as "Mrs. Mulraid," and when simple amatory effusions to her daughter rhymed with "lovely maid," she promptly refused the original vowel. A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready He was the first eminent amatory poet who appeared after the great convulsion which had changed, not only the political, but the moral, state of the world. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 He had the amatory songs which a dignitary of the Church published and withdrew from circulation. Books and Bookmen We possess about a hundred amatory epigrams by this poet. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology A literature rich in ballads, in war-songs, in satire, and, above all, in amatory poetry amused the leisure of the knights and ladies whose fortified mansions adorned the banks of the Rhone and Garonne. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 In fact, gregarious and amatory as are the Ana, Frogs are still more so. The Coming Race In the second place, Petrarch was not only an egotist, but an amatory egotist. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 Whether it was an amatory or a financial disappointment that turned him into a hermit was left to ingenious conjecture. An Old Town By the Sea The pattern set by Meleager was followed by later poets; and little more would remain to say were it not necessary to notice the brief renascence of amatory poetry in the sixth century. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology STRANGER: Let us admit this, then, to be the amatory art. Sophist That man had been the first to divide him in the all but equal slices of his egoistic from his amatory self: murder of his individuality was the crime of Horace De Craye. The Egoist They pressed it with a little amatory squeeze at parting. No Thoroughfare Certainly not amatory or anything of that kind—yet it was, it struck me, more dangerous, if not so deadly as an actual threatening.” Lair of the White Worm Each book is divided into chapters which are arranged alphabetically by subject, with the exception of the seventh book, consisting of amatory epigrams, which is not subdivided. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology The inanely amatory, with their languishing eyes, weary us. Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things I fancy we understand that phase of amatory frigidity. The Egoist The "grace and genius beyond his age," which Jacobs justly attributes to him, reach their highest point in his amatory epigrams, forty in number, some of which are not inferior to those of Meleager. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology If it were not amatory, was it threatening? Lair of the White Worm Thirty-two of his epigrams, chiefly amatory, are in the Anthology, and five more are ascribed to him on doubtful authenticity. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology His amatory click-clack prevented the morning and wrecked the tranquillity of the evening. Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things |
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