I should have distinguished this as a moment of sunshine, a happy period in my life, had not the repugnance the disgusting libertinism of my protector inspired, daily become more painful.
By allowing women but one way of rising in the world, the fostering the libertinism of men, society makes monsters of them, and then their ignoble vices are brought forward as a proof of inferiority of intellect.
Nanette affected an air of reserve and took at on herself to read me lessons on what she was pleased to call my libertinism .
Imagine sixty winters heaped upon a face plastered with rouge, a blotched and pimpled complexion, emaciated and gaunt features, all the ugliness of libertinism stamped upon the countenance of that creature relining upon the sofa.
Whether this lady found in John of Gaunt a faithful and loving husband, or whether his libertinism caused her to pass her short life in disappointment and sorrow, no authentic document enables us to pronounce.
Of this they grew tired, and libertinismsucceeded to it.
He had long outlived the times when libertinism was regarded as essential to the character of a wit and a gentleman.
The libertinism of the press and of the stage was, as we have said, the effect of a reaction against the Puritan strictness.
But the most nauseous libertinism and the most dastardly fraud are substituted for the purity and integrity of the original.
As to the rest, he had neither the qualities which make dulness respectable, nor the qualities which make libertinism attractive.
To its honor, libertinism and intemperance no longer intrude their obscene faces into its pictures.
Actual libertinism is no necessary concomitant of nympholeptic longing.
What is emphasized in the older Don Juan is not merely his libertinism but his impiety--the gratification of his appetite in deliberate defiance of God.
Even his meeting Syrus intoxicated augments his rage, at the general libertinism and extravagance of the family.
I am not a presuming coxcomb; but she was infinitely too artless to conceal her partiality; and neither her misfortunes, or her being the sister of my friend Godolphin, protected her against the libertinism of my principles.
But it is as stupid as it is infamous to pretend that such natures as these find any warrant for their tragic libertinism in Walter Pater.
It was not surpassed even by the metropolis of France during the heat and fervor of the Revolution, when libertinism reigned triumphant, and the laws of God and man were alike set at defiance.
The mere commerce of the sexes, and the libertinism of the period in that respect, were the smallest vices, and might almost be considered merely follies, but the venality and corruption were open and shameless.
In the fashionable libertinism there is a hard, cold ferocity, an impudence, a lowness, a dirtiness, which can be paralleled only among the heroes and heroines of that filthy and heartless literature which encouraged it.
Least any Man should think (says He) that I write this to makeLibertinism amiable, or that I cared not to debase the end, and Institution of Comedy.
In short, Libertinism and Profaness, Dressing, Idleness, and Gallantry, are the only valuable Qualities.
His warmest votaries allow, that when he was young he was addicted to the fashionable libertinism of wine and women, and that he kept himself unmarried lest wedlock should interrupt him in the study of philosophy.
And all doctrines of libertinism and looseness, which warrant men to do evil and to neglect a holy life, are of the two a more dangerous way of flattery, than that which consisteth but in misapplication.
His palaces were said to be harems, and his libertinism to put Oriental potentates to the blush.
Finally, the results of libertinism have constantly marked, not merely the ruin of families, but the degeneration of races, and the decay of empires.
This means will serve, more than can easily be imagined, to preserve the adolescent both from the grosser attractions of libertinism and the disease it entails, and from the more dangerous snares of coquetry.
So little, however, do men look to remote consequences that perhaps the most frightful punishments of libertinism are the diseases which it inflicts.
Collier did so; and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave apophthegm which is to be a set-off against all the libertinism of the piece is contained in the following triplet: "What rugged ways attend the noon of life!
His lordship was scarcely past the meridian of life; yet, in spite of his gay and debonair manner, he looked old, as if he were paying for the libertinism of his youth by premature decrepitude.
Cicero had thus to defend his client against the suspicions arising from the general libertinism of his conduct.
During the Directorate, luxury and libertinism reigned almost as absolutely as during the monarchy.
At school, boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinismwhich destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.
The scandalous libertinism of both father and sons had corrupted all around as well as themselves.
The frankness of libertinism is, in point of fact, less shocking than the mournful simulation of dignity.
May we always bear in mind that the Muses are chaste, and that they ought never to sing of libertinism and prostitution!
