Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-01-04
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Luscious KISSING DEsCRIBED.-Al-
most any writer, says the Yankee Blade,
can describe emotions of JOY, anger, fear,
doubt or hope but there are very few who
can give anything like an adequate descrip-
ton Of the exquisite, heavenly and thrill
ing JOY Of exquisite kissing. We copy
below three Of the best attempts we have
ever seen. The first is by a young LADY
during her FIRST year Of courtship
Let thy arms entwine
Around me like a zone of love,
And thy fond lips so soft,
To mine be p~assionately pressed,
As it has been so Oft"
The next Is by a lady after her engage
ment. 1t will readily be seen that her
powers of description are far in advance of
the ones above quoted:
Sweetest love.
Place thy dear arm beneath my dropping
And let me lowly nestle on thy heart;
linen turn those soul lit orbs on me and press
MY parting lips to taste the ecstacv
Impaired by each long and lingering kiss"
But the best thing we have seen is the
following, by Alexander Smith. We think.
however, when man INDUCES so freely in
oseulatory nectar as to imagine he is walk
ing on thrones he should be choked off!
Hear him {:
MY soul leapod up beneath thy timid kiss,
What then to me were groans,
Or pain or death ? Earth was a round ofbl;ss
1 seemed to walk on thrones"
a Hoosiey's Description of a Dinner al
ne 1stor Hoase.-I met upon the train an
elderly hoosier, who had been to the show
case exhibition at New York, and who had
also seen the III pod 70 me, as he called il.
lid you remain long in New York ? |
asked him.
Well, no. answered he thoughtfulIv.
only two days, for | saw there was a right
smart chance Of starving to death, and I'm
opposed to that way Of going down. l put
up at one OF their %tavernS, and [ allowed !
was going to be treated to the whole
Where did you stop / said |, interrupt
ing him.
At the Astore House. l allow Won
don't kctch me to no such a place apin.-
They rung a gone, as they called it four
times aloro breakfast, and then when | went
to eat, there want marry vittles on the Ia
bic y
What was there " l venturcd to INQUIRE.
Well, said the old man, enumeratinp the
items cautiously, as if from fear of omission,
u.thero was a clean plate--wronp side m
a knife, q clean so1OeH, a sptit spoon, and a
hand bill! aud what was worse added NV
companion, the i%nsultin' niger up and
asked me what wanted : %vittles,' saws |.
bring ~ ger Vitles, and RI help myseIfP
A distinguished divine was walking with
afriend past a new church, in which another
distinuished divine is the shepherd. Said
the friend to ID. D., looking up at the spire,
which was very tall and not yet completed,
Chow much higher is that going to be Yj
"Not much" said the d. d., with a sly
laugh, they don't own very far in that d.
rection y
When a stranger treats mt with want Of
respect said a poor philosopher. 81 CON-
fort myself with the reflection that it is not
myself that he sights, but my old and shah
by coat and shabby hat, which, TO say the
truth, have no particular claim to alteration.
So il my hat and coat choose 10 fret about
il, let them but il smoothing to me-
H@- Whiskey-drinking never conducted
wealth into mans pocket, happiness to his
family, or responsibility to his character
therefore, whiskey is a non-conductor, and
it is best to let it alone.
IA A droll fellow, who had o wooden
leg, being in company with a mar who was
somewhat credulOus, the latter asked the
former how he came to have a wooden leg.
Why said he, my father had one, and
30 had my grandfather before him; it runs
in the blood