The Art of LovingPustak Mahal, 2007 - 120 pages Love, like faith, is said to move mountains. Indeed, one man s love for Helen of Troy led to the launch of a thousand warships and a ten-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Although the passionate moments of love are always heady, the aftermath can also be tragic, since both are inseparable elements of the same coin. While one and all would welcome love s throbbing passion, we are all wary of its searing flame. Therefore, the book is profusely peppered with examples of Cupid s copious arrows that have felled monarchs and common folk, princes and paupers, seers and seekers, writers and readers. And it is not just men who have done the chasing in man s oldest sport. The book also narrates instances where women have pined for, wined, dined and chased men! |
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... Heaven ! 68885 17. Happily Ever After 71 18. " The Course of True Love Never Runs Smooth " 75 19. They Loved No Less 77 20. The Companionship of Man and Woman 80 21. Age , Marriage and Love 85 22. They Married Widows and Lived Happily ...
... Heaven ! 68885 17. Happily Ever After 71 18. " The Course of True Love Never Runs Smooth " 75 19. They Loved No Less 77 20. The Companionship of Man and Woman 80 21. Age , Marriage and Love 85 22. They Married Widows and Lived Happily ...
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... heaven drowsy with the harmony , Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were tempered with Love's sighs : O , then his lines would ravage savage ears , And plant in tyrants mild humility . But the description of poet Tupper ...
... heaven drowsy with the harmony , Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were tempered with Love's sighs : O , then his lines would ravage savage ears , And plant in tyrants mild humility . But the description of poet Tupper ...
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... heaven , and heaven is love . Pristine Glory of Love Down the ages , many things have changed , but love in its pristine glory has endured . Love casts its net so wide that in the catch come assorted victims : prince and pauper , man ...
... heaven , and heaven is love . Pristine Glory of Love Down the ages , many things have changed , but love in its pristine glory has endured . Love casts its net so wide that in the catch come assorted victims : prince and pauper , man ...
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... and musical As bright Apollo's lute , strung with his hair ; And , when love speaks , the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony .... " Romantic Love in Early Indian Literature Sublime Level of Love 15.
... and musical As bright Apollo's lute , strung with his hair ; And , when love speaks , the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony .... " Romantic Love in Early Indian Literature Sublime Level of Love 15.
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... Heaven a draught of heav'nly pleasure spare , One cordial in this melancholy vale , ' Tis when a youthful , loving , modest pair , In other's arms breathe out the tender tale , Beneath the milk - white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale ...
... Heaven a draught of heav'nly pleasure spare , One cordial in this melancholy vale , ' Tis when a youthful , loving , modest pair , In other's arms breathe out the tender tale , Beneath the milk - white thorn that scents the ev'ning gale ...
Contents
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Mans Abiding Devotion to his Chosen Angel | 30 |
The Broken Heart | 36 |
Thy Name is Woman | 44 |
Where Marriages are Made | 65 |
Happily Ever After | 71 |
They Loved No Less | 77 |
Age Marriage and Love | 85 |
Is Marriage Worthwhile For Woman? | 92 |
The Hidden Beauty in a Woman | 98 |
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Popular passages
Page 14 - Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil : But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain ; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 20 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Page 9 - Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Page 22 - What makes the youth sae bashfu' an' sae grave: Weel pleased to think her bairn's respected like the lave. O happy love! where love like this is found! O heartfelt raptures! bliss beyond compare! I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare: — If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the...
Page 22 - My true love hath my heart, and I have his. His heart in me keeps him and me in one, My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides: He loves my heart, for once it was his own, I cherish his because in me it bides: My true love hath my heart, and I have his.
Page 107 - While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience; — Too little payment for so great a debt. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such, a woman oweth to her husband...
Page 52 - See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea: What are all these kissings worth If thou kiss not me?
Page 28 - Thou wouldst still be ador'd, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still.
Page 23 - Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight: It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden, Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens'.
Page 53 - Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle.