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Thus a custom, which had its origin in a love of sensuality and pleasure, became mistaken for the sign of a good and faithful spirit. The fashion of blackening the teeth entails no little trouble upon its followers, for the colour must be renewed every day, or at least every other day.
To that utter neglect of any exercises which call out fortitude, patience, self-dependence, and daring, I attribute a great deal of the low sensuality, the conceited vulgarity, the want of a high sense of honour, which is increasing just now among the middle classes; and from which the navigator, the engineer, the miner, and the sailor are comparatively free.
Her beauty, her sensuality, had power over him still; he resented such danger of subjection, and encouraged himself in a barbarism of mood, which permitted him to think that even in yielding he might find the way of his revenge. There had been a long silence since his reply to the hint offered by Decius. The student spoke again. 'Basil, leave Rome.
His youthful poem, "Venus and Adonis," is touched with the disease which had blighted the literature and the life of southern Europe, the infection of the imagination by sensuality, a sort of intellectual putrescence.
There is a feminine tenderness and sensuality in it, which modestly and unconsciously longs for a UNIO MYSTICA ET PHYSICA, as in the case of Madame de Guyon. In many cases it appears, curiously enough, as the disguise of a girl's or youth's puberty; here and there even as the hysteria of an old maid, also as her last ambition. The Church has frequently canonized the woman in such a case.
But the arrogant and expeditious Falstaff of The Merry Wives so richly freighted with rubicund sensuality, so abundant in comic loquacity, and so ludicrous in his sorry plights is a much less complex person, and therefore he stands more level than the real Falstaff does with the average comprehension of mankind.
Appetite shows to the finer souls as a disease, and they find beauty in rites and bounds that resist it. We have found out fine names to cover our sensuality withal, but no gifts can raise intemperance. The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial and to count them nothing considered with his devotion to his art. His art rebukes him.
And thus it is seemly in man's soul for to be, that from the time that reason hath refrained the great jangling of imagination, and hath put her to be underlout to God, and maketh her to bear some fruit in helping of her knowing, that right so the affection refrain the lust and the thirst of the sensuality, and make her to be underlout to God, and so to bear some fruit in helping of her feeling.
There was, however, a youthy and luscious twinkling in his eyes, that showed how little the passage of three-and-fifty winters had cooled the rampant sensuality of his nature.
He was answered, 'That he had no cause to fear, having lived so mighty a king. 'But, oh! said he, 'I have lived too like a king. He should rather have said, not like a king for the office of a king is to do justice and equity; but he only served his sensuality, like a beast."
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