"Amorousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the outcry: "Yes, the moonlight has given her and led her to me, he, the moon has so rewarded me, his true friend and inspired panegyrist!" I regret that I find nothing in the biographies which would explain Tieck's exquisite amorousness ...
— Sleep Walking and Moon Walking - A Medico-Literary Study • Isidor Isaak Sadger
... my face behold, That see I there which doth my mind content, Nor any present hap or memory old May me deprive of such sweet ravishment. Where else, then, should I find such blandishment Of sight and sense that e'er My heart should know another amorousness? ...
— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio
... with a mixture of amorousness and awe. The leaves of scrub-oaks along the road crinkled and shone in the sun. She was lulled to slumberous content. She lazily beamed her pleasure back at him, though a tiny hope that he would be circumspect, not ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis
... reality, (unknown to the old poems,) like new systems of orbs, balanced upon themselves, revolving in limitless space, more subtle than the stars. Poetry, so largely hitherto and even at present wedded to children's tales, and to mere amorousness, upholstery and superficial rhyme, will have to accept, and, while not denying the past, nor the themes of the past, will be revivified by this tremendous innovation, the kosmic spirit, which must henceforth, in my opinion, be the background and underlying impetus, ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman |
