This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... was really the golden age for bold arid ardent passions, -for a harvest to be reaped on i ous unions, fflr manly and physical bravery, epic gallantry, and sturdy and powerful voluptuousness. The seventeenth century mitigated this by introducing a somewhat new ideality. Love in the Italian style was succeeded by Love, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ... was really the golden age for bold arid ardent passions, -for a harvest to be reaped on i ous unions, fflr manly and physical bravery, epic gallantry, and sturdy and powerful voluptuousness. The seventeenth century mitigated this by introducing a somewhat new ideality. Love in the Italian style was succeeded by Love, in the Spanish fashion, a love full of affectation and kind attentions, imprisoned by decorum, tied by duty, never separated, based on complicated and dull metaphysics. The heroic, pastoral novel Astrea, of which the doctrines were first accepted by the frequenters of the Hotel de Eambouillet, to spread thence into fashionable society, mixed chivalric feeling with platonic love, and, as Saint-Marc Girardin remarks, greatly contributed to bring to its acme the pre ponderance of women in society and literature. The typical perfect lover was the gentleman described by Faret, dying discreetly and quietly, suffering, sighing, and not saying a word; the paragon of softened virtue was the lady depicted by Du Boscq so morally and correctly. Time was then the surest auxiliary of love, and all professed lovers and arrant gallants liked to languish in their slow and discreet pursuit; gentle allu-gM& sionswere, ' made, eyes;' lJpl spoke but lips remained dumb, and madrigals were so refined" that they became bombastic, in order to S touch with more certainty. the heart through the' mind. The entire bewigged seventeenth century regulates Love pompously, and strains sentiment so affectedly, that it must have suffered through it; everything seems prepared, laid out, pruned like the gardens of Le Notre; nothing was natural, lively, eccentric, independent, mad, but much was rectilinear, cold, courteous, and magnificent. These illustrious grand ladies, li...
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Fair. Ard Cover--Fair--Other than major discoloration at bottom foredge (not effecting text or illustrations), book is tight and structurally sound. Includes 160 illustrations by Paul Avril.