ianthes

Updated: May 23, 2025

Yes, Pen began to feel the necessity of a first love of a consuming passion of an object on which he could concentrate all those vague floating fancies under which he sweetly suffered of a young lady to whom he could really make verses, and whom he could set up and adore, in place of those unsubstantial Ianthes and Zuleikas to whom he addressed the outpourings of his gushing muse.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Pendennis