Englishmen are no longer what they were if they continue to tolerate this Ignoble espionnage of Vicious and prurientvirtuous "Associations.
The man must be prurient and lecherous as a dog-faced baboon in rut to have aught of passion excited by either.
To call such a man 'ambitious,' to figure him as the prurient windbag described above, seems to me the poorest solecism.
A poor morbid prurient empty man; fitter for the ward of a hospital, than for a throne among men.
Popular novels have doubtless done more to arouse a prurient curiosity in the young, and to excite and foster passion and immorality, than even the obscene literature for the suppression of which such active measures have recently been taken.
When I came out with Tit-Bits there was not a single popular paper containing fun or jokes or anything of the kind--except the illustrated ones--but what relied more or less upon prurient matter to tickle the fancies of prurient minds.
The appetite for prurient details which is a main feature of this book, is perhaps intelligible when it relates to intrigues notorious to all the world.
Aretino, by the animation of his sketches, by his prurient delight in what is vile, makes us comprehend that even the Mandragola was possible.
And in Aretino is already foreshadowed Baffo, the prurient and porcine Caliban of verse, more barbarously bestial than Venetian Casanova.
Still it is not much to his credit to plead that his cantos are less impure than the Capitoli of Monsignore La Casa or the prurient comedies of Aretino.
For this reason we ought to regard sex with reverent thought, to hold it sacred to the highest purposes, to speak of it ever with purest delicacy, and never with jesting or prurient smiles.
Those who peruse the book only from prurient curiosity will be disappointed.
In Common-room at lunch King discoursed acridly to Prout of boys with prurient minds, who perverted their few and baleful talents to sap discipline and corrupt their equals, to deal in foul imagery and destroy reverence.
I fancied they might have been engaged in some of the prurient discourse with which they have been so disgustingly free of late.
These young people could then see the facts of sex clearly instead of through the mists of prurient fancy and suggestion as they see them now.
He shrugged his shoulders as he answered: 'But these Westerns have such prurient minds!
Voltaire says that these prurient questions were debated with a gusto and a minuteness of detail not found elsewhere.
In entering upon the subject, the endeavor will be to give such particulars as will enable the reader to form satisfactory conclusions, without recording what would merely minister to a prurient curiosity.
In the practice of prostitution, the use of indecent orprurient prints is chiefly for the adornment of visitors' rooms in brothels.
I am desirous of obtaining the aggregate facts of the vice, and shall be cautious to take no steps toward gratifying a prurient curiosity or lacerating a rankling wound.
The idea has been to particularize sufficiently to draw attention, but not enough to gratify a prurient inclination; to exhibit the evil in a truthful aspect, but not in a fascinating form.
New Printers, new Journals, and ever new (so prurient is the world), let our Three Hundred curb and consolidate as they can!
That prurient heat in Twenty-five millions of hearts is not cooled thereby; but is still hot, nay hotter.
For the rest, that in such prurient confusion, Clubbism thrives and spreads, need not be said.
What a world of prurient corruption lies visible in that super-sublime of modesty!
I regard these efforts as being prompted purely by curiosity; I had no feelings of warmth or irritations of the genitals, and I certainly never manipulated them, nor was I, as far as I can judge, an unusually prurient small boy.
Grave, shy, and reserved, I was never taken into the counsels of prurient schoolmates.
No enlightened reader of Greek mythology can proceed far without discovering that he is dealing with the prurient and often lascivious imaginings of semi-barbarous poets.
Many modern Latin writers are commended, especially the Christeida of Sannazaro and Vida, but all such prurient productions in Italian as Boccaccio's novels are to be shunned like venomous reptiles.
In no language, perhaps, does there exist a jest-book more disgustingly prurient or so full of sacrilegious ribaldry as the Facetiae of Poggio Bracciolini.
Shall the courts thus close the front entrance to constituted authority, and open wide the back door to idle or prurient curiosity?
To satisfy a prurient taste the details of sexual relations are spread broadcast in the columns of the daily papers.
The prurient coarseness of Fletcher is due to the peculiar licentiousness of the period.
This was the substance called 'hippomanes,' which was said to flow from mares when in a prurient state.
I sent for other books by the same tainted hand, and my appetite for that kind of prurient romance grew keener.
It is only the indifferent and inappetent soul that is liberated from the subjection of nature, while the apparent is fast bound to its chains and wander with their prurient nature in repeated transmigrations.
The restoration of the intellect to its proper form consists in divesting it of all its intelligibles; and that form of it (which is marked by desire or the prurient soul), is no more than the oscillation of the great Intellect.
Here our prurient minds like birds of variegated colours, rest and remain and sit and sport, in and all about this arbour.
