He was a man of bright parts, but no conduct, being violent and inconstant in his intrigues of love as well as those of politics, and so indiscreet as to boast of his successful amours with certain ladies whom he ought not to have named.
The play is otherwise excessively involved, in consequence of the introduction of the amours and nuptials of the five daughters of Liseo.
He amused himself for some time with relating his amours to his countryman; but the clock striking, recalled the soldier to his post, when a mutual promise was given of meeting on the morrow.
The rest of the first part of the Lost Illusions is taken up with the amours of Lucien and an actress named Coralie, who gives the poet her heart and person, yet he sharing the second with the rich Camuzot.
In 1702 he brought out a “corrected” version of the Merry Wives with the title of the Comical Gallant or the Amours of Sir John Falstaffe.
There is a long account of this lady in Amours secrètes de Napoléon, des Princes et Princesses de sa famille, &c.
Amours of Hercules," and his cousin of Montpensier took part.
Footnote 218: This conversation, which gives the key to the conduct of Lauzun, is reported in Le Perroquet or Les amours de Mademoiselle, an anonymous recital printed by M.
But it was not in dress or feasting, in promiscuous amours or promiscuous charities, that his chief expense lay.
Why do you act the prude with me--you, a shameless hussey, who has numbered more amoursthan years?
I tell you that I consume with desire--but not for enjoyment with such as you, but for delicious amourswhich are recherche and unique!
John Marrowfat--for it was that noted hero of pulpit oratory, amours and matrimony!
Were we disposed, what astounding disclosures we could make, of beastly amours among the sons and daughters of the aristocracy!
She wishes to carry on her amours under my very nose!
Even the elegant Horry put an extra squeeze of gall into his standish when describing the amours of the princess.
Formerly, they said, the act of profaning royal mansions by clandestine amours was considered a crime punishable with the loss of a finger-joint, and Struensee did worse in turning a royal garden into a scene of libertinism.
The risks she frequently encountered in pursuit of her amours abounded in comedy.
Probably this omission arose from Dryden's desire to simplify the plot, by leaving out the intrigues of the Grecian chiefs, and limiting the interest to the amours of Troilus and Cressida.
In 1566 another rather curiously conceived work made its appearance, the Amours et Nouveaux Echanges de Pierres Precieuses.
He began in French, like the majority of his school, with a collection of sonnets and other pieces, entitled Les Amours de Meline, and he followed them up with the Amours de Francine.
They even went so far, it is said, as to violate the privacy of the convents, and to outrage the religious sentiments of the Peruvians by their scandalous amours with the Virgins of the Sun.
Their chastity was all a feint," says Pedro Pizarro, "for they had constant amours with the attendants on the temple.
I enjoyed the act very much, as she permitted, nay insisted on, emission intra vaginam, and told her that this was much nicer than my amours with the maidservant which of course I had confided to her.
Spoke unabash'd her amours and named them singly, opining Haply an ear to record fail'd me, a voice to reveal.
No more than I was aware that I had had any amours with the ladies of the court.
She shewed me her house and her jewels, told me the story of her amours with the duke, of her breaking with him on account of his perpetual infidelities, and of her marriage with a man she despised, but who was forced on her by her position.
That prince knows how his scandalous amours afflict the Queen.
This allusion to the amours of Louis XIV was speedily carried to the despot's ears.
I knew better than any one the amours of the Emperor.
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