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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... marriage have been dwelt upon at length . Every region has had its own tradition and conventions relating to love and marriage . They keep changing no doubt . Stories , legends and history were largely shaped by them . Many tales of ...
... marriage have been dwelt upon at length . Every region has had its own tradition and conventions relating to love and marriage . They keep changing no doubt . Stories , legends and history were largely shaped by them . Many tales of ...
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... married life ( and remember , it is never too late ! ) , you can deem yourself intelligent and resourceful . And in due course , if you realise your aim , a happy life , you would not only be wise , but fortunate too . Having gone ...
... married life ( and remember , it is never too late ! ) , you can deem yourself intelligent and resourceful . And in due course , if you realise your aim , a happy life , you would not only be wise , but fortunate too . Having gone ...
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... Marry , or Not to Marry ? 14. A Sermon on Married Life 49 55 58 63 15. Where Marriages are Made 16 . Hell Made in Heaven ! 68885 17. Happily Ever After 71 18. " The Course of True Love Never Runs Smooth " 75 19. They Loved No Less 77 20 ...
... Marry , or Not to Marry ? 14. A Sermon on Married Life 49 55 58 63 15. Where Marriages are Made 16 . Hell Made in Heaven ! 68885 17. Happily Ever After 71 18. " The Course of True Love Never Runs Smooth " 75 19. They Loved No Less 77 20 ...
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... worked day and night to further his aim of world conquest , could not shut his heart to love , though he felt that for a man with his single - minded ambition , marriage could be an absolute obstacle . Yet he fell 13.
... worked day and night to further his aim of world conquest , could not shut his heart to love , though he felt that for a man with his single - minded ambition , marriage could be an absolute obstacle . Yet he fell 13.
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... Marriage and Morals , Russell says : " I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer . In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and ...
... Marriage and Morals , Russell says : " I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer . In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and ...
Contents
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Mans Abiding Devotion to his Chosen Angel | 30 |
The Broken Heart | 36 |
Thy Name is Woman | 44 |
A Sinless Transgression? | 55 |
A Sermon on Married Life | 63 |
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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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.