Disdain beseems not cottages, nor coyness maids; for either they be condemned to be too proud, or too froward.
Whenas I talk of Rosalynde The god from coyness waxeth kind, And seems in selfsame flames to fry Because he loves as well as I.
She now became alarmed, and, forgetting all coynessand affected indifference, called on Eugene's mother for an explanation.
Heedless, however, of this growing odium, James continued to solicit the affected coyness of the court of Madrid.
That court had wrought on his feeble mind by affected coyness about the infanta's marriage, with two private aims; to secure his neutrality in the war of the Palatinate, and to obtain better terms for the English catholics.
Moreover, it appears that even this sham coynessis exceptional, since, as Burchell informs us (II.
Capturing Women The Comedy of Mock Capture Why the Women Resist Quaint Customs Greek and Roman Mercenary Coyness Modesty and Coyness Utility of Coyness How Women Propose V.
Masculine Coyness Shy but not Coy Militarism and Mediaeval Women What Made Women Coy?
At the same time it is obvious that since coyness is widely prevalent at the present day it must have been in the past of use to women, else it would not have survived and increased.
This is offset by the coyness and coquetry of the female, by which she equally attracts and fascinates the male and practices upon him to induce a corresponding state of nervous excitation.
In animal society the coyness of the female is the analogue of modesty.
A minimum expression of modesty, and one having an organic rather than a social basis, is seen in the coyness of the female among animals.
Then, as though her heart had said, "Is coyness longer necessary?
His plan of procedure was different now--as though he had made up his mind that her negatives were, after all, only coyness and youth startled by the novelty of the proposal.
A young knight, hearing of the pride andcoyness of a lady, accosts and kisses her as she rides past with a great following of knights.
Gaston Paris, however, and others, see in Dangier the natural coyness and resistance of the beloved object, not any external influence.
Here, at last, her love breaks forth without reserve, and although she still rejects his petition, it is with a maidenly coyness and an expression of regret which add a new and individual interest to her character.
They want to be wooed long and ardently; they strive by their reserve and coyness to make the prize more desirable.
He had made such matters a study, and knew all about the coyness and playful obstinacy of young girls.
Miss le Breton's coyness was too mechanical, too well worn to afford even a charitable point of view.
Often it may symbolize the coyness or mark the subjection of woman.
The masculine attitude in the face of feminine coyness may easily pass into a kind of sadism, but is nevertheless in its origin an innocent and instinctive impulse.
We started out afoot soon after dinner, through a scattering growth of popples that alternately drew the veil of coyness over the blue hills and caught our breath with the delight of a momentary prospect.
The coyness of the virgin, the suitor, by his prayers and wooing, does all he can to overcome; but here the coyness is in the suitor himself.
To Charles she was coyness itself--virtue personified.
There is little of the poetry of first-love, and little of the coyness and shrinking diffidence which characterize the first attachment.
Her coyness but kept those chains the stronger, her postponement of the surrender made it the more impossible for me to leave her side.
She looked grave for a moment in her turn, then with a sudden access of coyness she murmured, "I do not believe that I am mistaken in you.
Like yon star that livelier gleams From the frosty heavens around, Love himself the keener beams When with snows of coyness crowned.
I can easily believe that he, with all his intelligence, might be deceived by the feminine reserve and coyness of such a girl as you.
The feminine reserve and coyness had become odious to her,--as it had been displayed by herself to him.
The kind of coyness which she had displayed had been the very infatuation of feminine imbecility.
It was because nature had made her utterly unfit for such a destiny that she had been driven bycoyness and feminine reserve to destroy herself!
