He convicts Goethe of three distinct kinds of personal vanity and six kinds of voluptuousness ("dreierlei Eitelkeiten und sechserlei Wollüsteleien").
Many a lover suffering from unrequited love, is born with the tendency to become unhappy, with a secret will to the voluptuousness of pain and melancholy; he will enjoy his unhappiness, perhaps become productive through it.
Here the remotest limit has been reached--sensuousness seems to flow into eternity, voluptuousness would shatter the world to pieces and create a new relationship of things.
Earthly sensuality did not satisfy Novalis, voluptuousness detached from man, voluptuousness in itself, was his dream and his religion--the supremest creation ever achieved by sexuality intensified into a cosmic emotion.
In the dark excesses of the Mysteries the beauty of the human form counted for nothing; voluptuousness and intoxication ruled.
There was in these two souls the same enchantment, tinged with voluptuousness in Marius and with modesty in Cosette.
A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that febrile absorption which is known and classified by science, and which is to suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure, for despair also has its ecstasy.
What is enough for health, is not enough for pleasure, and it is often difficult to decide whether it is the wants of the body that require to be met, or the deceiving voluptuousness of concupiscence which subjugates us.
In this incertitude our miserable soul rejoices because she finds therein a defense and an excuse, and, not knowing what is sufficient for the maintenance of health, she places the interests of voluptuousness under the shadow of this pretext.
To draw the same atmosphere with her was stifling; and at the thought his deep inspirations took on a new voluptuousness of freedom regained.
The shining city seemed to waft an incense of pleasure up to the stars; to breathe out an aroma of sinless voluptuousness that rose like a thank-offering for life.
As we gaze, Virgil's lines upon the young Marcellus recur to our mind: what seemed sullen, becomes mournful; the unmistakablevoluptuousness is transfigured in tranquillity.
The undefinable expression of the lips, together with the weight of the brows and slumberous half-closed eyes, gives a look of sulkiness or voluptuousness to the whole face.
The whole face has a somewhat stern and frowning Roman look of resolution, contrasting with the mild benignity of the Bacchus statues, and the almost sulky voluptuousness of the busts.
If the former, you can sing in honour of all the voluptuousness and all the sirens of the universe, without ever having known either.
Such exceptions are far more rare than is usually supposed, because the self-preservative hypocrisy of most pessimists enables them to conceal their voluptuousness under the mask of pity.
The pleasure which certain minds derive from a contemplation of the "deadness of matter" is closely associated with the voluptuousness of cruelty drawn from the recesses of the sexual instinct.
Bajazet at first attacked the Mamelukes of Egypt without success; he afterwards sunk into voluptuousness and the pleasures of the seraglio, which gave the Christians a few years of repose and safety.
Scarcely human beings, they were useful to voluptuousness and to religion.
Verus, whose dissipation andvoluptuousness were as conspicuous as the moderation of the philosopher.
He lived to the age of eighty-five, and after a life of voluptuousnesswas choked with a grape stone.
There I felt all that voluptuousness carries with it.
They told the disappointments of the week, their presentiments, their fears about the letters; but now all was forgotten, and they were face to face, with their laugh of voluptuousness and terms of endearment.
The field of action should also add greatly to your enjoyment--A delicious little villa, which was taken for you only, must embellish voluptuousness with the charms of mysteriousness and liberty.
Under the cloak of dissipation and voluptuousnesshis application has been indefatigable, and his studies unintermitted: the oil of the midnight lamp has been exhausted, and the labyrinths of knowledge have been explored.
He began to write: he had acquired the faculty of vigourous expression by means of such emotions as were tinged with a mystical voluptuousness which was the other pole to his inner, secret and spiritual being.
Her glance was electric, and it was impossible to meet her look unmoved, she exhaled an atmosphere of voluptuousness of the most maddening force.
The voluptuousness of the great is an insatiable hyena--the craving of whose appetite demands perpetual victims.
This voluptuousness in Delacroix (analogous to Wagner's music) results from the balance of large dark and light masses--the fullness of chiaroscuro.
Colour with them was dictated by the demands of an age of voluptuousness and unrestrained living.
I had seen many naked women, but none to compare to Eudoxie; she was grace, beauty and voluptuousness combined.
The spark of voluptuousness which has ever since burnt so fiercely in my breast was destined to be lighted up by one of my own sex.
It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in Marius, and with modesty in Cosette.
A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure.
Voluptuousness mingles there with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself.
The heart draws back before voluptuousness only to love the more.
If at that supreme hour, the wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of wings.
Nothing could be less suggestive of voluptuousness than Poe’s nostalgia.
A few years since that mother died, and the youth has been too much engaged in voluptuousness and luxury to embark in the malicious pursuits of Rodogune, Sensuality has been his aim, and pleasure has been his God.
He had comparatively passed through no previous scenes; he had not been led on step by step; and the voluptuousness of the objects that now presented themselves before him had been unknown and unexpected.
