Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
From the time of the first kisses recorded in the book of Genesis,—the kiss with which Jacob imposed upon the credulity of his blind old father and defrauded his brother of the blessing intended for him, and that of Jacob the lover when he met Rachel at the well,—to the presen...
From the time of the first kisses recorded in the book of Genesis,—the kiss with which Jacob imposed upon the credulity of his blind old father and defrauded his brother of the...
2. Part 2“Oh that the Greeks would send me hence to try If I could make your stubborn heart comply! Few words I’d use; all should be sighs, and tears, And looks, and kisses, mixed with h...
3. Part 3“Being in a fair great dining chamber, I awaited my Lady’s coming; and after she came thither out of her own chamber, she received me most gently, like one of noble estate, havi...
4. Part 4“We believe in temperance, but not in total abstinence, so far as this business is concerned. Mrs. Swisshelm takes credit to herself for carefully avoiding kisses during her pro...
5. Part 5The mistletoe, which has so many mystic associations connected with it, is believed to be propagated in its natural state by the _missel-thrush_, which feeds upon its berries. I...
6. Part 6About nine or ten o’clock in the evening the nuptial knot is tied,—the Imaam, or priest, placing himself in a short passage which leads between two rooms, respectively occupied...
7. Part 7Oh that a joy so soon should waste! Or so sweet a bliss As a kiss Might not forever last! So sugared, so melting, so soft, so delicious, The dew that lies on roses, When the mor...
8. Part 8Yet if that color, sweet as bees, Of flower-flushes teases, see How we can pluck such thorns as these, That bleed in blushes, easily; For, kiss me, sweet, just as you please, I’...
9. Part 9I’ll pu’ the budding rose when Phœbus peeps in view, For it’s like a baumy kiss o’ her sweet bonnie mou’; The hyacinth for constancy, wi’ its unchanging blue— And a’ to be a pos...
10. Part 10The good old man, even overjoyed with this, Fell on the ground, and wold have kissed Guy’s feete: “Father,” quoth he, “refraine soe base a kisse, For age to honor youth I hold u...
11. Part 11Two thousand kisses of the sweetest kind, ’Twas once agreed, our mutual love should bind; First from my lips a rapturous thousand flowed, Then you a thousand in your turn bestow...
12. Part 12Nor let my kingdom’s rivers take their course Through my burned bosom; nor entreat the north To make his bleak winds kiss my parchèd lips, And comfort me with cold.
13. Part 13Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topmost towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it fl...
14. Part 14“He would not even stop and give his Ethel of old days his hand. I would have given him I don’t know what, for one kiss, for one kind word; but he passed on and would not answer...
15. Part 15Charles Reade deals with the kiss in the sturdy and energetic manner which usually characterizes his writings. In “Put Yourself in his Place,” the bursting of Ouseley Reservoir...
16. Part 16“‘Forgive me!’ he cried, passionately. ‘I knew not what I said. My love for you has made me beside myself. It was my wounded vanity that spoke. It is my misfortune, not your fau...
17. Part 17“‘I beg your pardon,’ says his riv’rence; ’that’s not the cork at all,’ says he. ‘I dhrew the cork a good two minits ago, and it’s very purtily spitted on the end ov this blesse...
18. Part 18The attendant led her into an adjoining ward, when, discovering Lieutenant H., of the Fifth Kansas, lying fast asleep on his hospital couch, and thinking to have a little fun, h...
19. Part 19“Mary, why did you kiss your hand to the gentleman opposite, this morning?” said a careful mother to her blooming daughter. “Why, the gentleman had the impudence to throw a kiss...
20. Part 20Alexander Smith seems to have been electrified by a kiss; one made him feel as if he were “walking on thrones,”—a figure quite as remarkable as the old deacon’s, who, upon takin...
21. Part 21With that she leaped into her lord’s embrace, With well-dissembled virtue in her face. He hugged her close, and kissed her o’er and o’er, Disturbed with doubts and jealousies no...
22. Part 22“Do you,” said Fanny, t’other day, “In earnest love me as you say? Or are those tender words applied Alike to fifty girls beside?” “Dear, cruel girl,” cried I, “forbear; For by...
23. Part 23[26] The poet here, no doubt, copied from the mode of his own time, since kissing a lady in a public assembly was not then thought indecorous. In King Henry VIII., Act i., scene...