The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-10-29
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becomes delicious and deleetabIe as 1t is
favored with love"
The answers submitted, OF course, ran
the gamut from the ridiculous TO the
sublime and added many epigrams TO os-
culatory love. but one might quote forever
and not exhaust the vOlumniOus sayings
which illustrious minds have devoted to
"Cupid's Sealing WAX" and II were idle
20 war with epigrams. Everybody recalls
Leigh Hunts little rondeau-
"Jenny kissed me when We met
Jumping from the chair she sat In
Time. you thief who loves to get
Sweets into your list, put that in
Say I'm weary. say I'm sad;
Say that health and wealth have missed
me.
Say I'm growing old, but add
Jenny kiss me!'
There are many illustrious examples Of
kisses-Poor Franceska lost her head
when her lover read Of the kiss Of Lance
lot and Guinevere Of whom 1t was written:
"a man had given all other bliss
And all his worldly worth for this
To waste his whole heart I'm one Kiss
Upon her perfect lips"
Ariosto compares the lips Of love to a
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Sydney Smith says there should be
certain amount Of shyness when a kiss is
proposed, but it should not be too long.
1t should be administered with warmth
and energy; and plenty Of soul in it.
If she closes her eyes and signs immedi-
ately after the effect Is greater. There
should be no uncertainty, no Jumbling,
but Just like a humming bird runs his
bin into a honeysuche-deep and delicate.
There is much virtue in well delivered
kiss-there is more, much more th@n Is
dreamed Of in cold philosophy
1t is said that dimples are Cupid's inn
press-that he was 50 touched once with
the beauty OF one Of his proposed targets
that he only bent and kissed her and
since that time a diTlple marks the
spot where Cupid kissed her, sleeping.
Chastelard bartered his life for kiss
from the fair and frail Mary Queen Of
Scots When we recall the viclssitudes
Of Pyramus and Thisbe, and how Thisbe
was dead and the lion had eat her. and
"Pyramus fell on his dagger and gave up
the ghost" and all through OSCILLATION.
we must certainly come 10 the conclusion
that,
Worse than accidents often befall
From kissing young fellows through holes
in the wall"
There are kisses and kisses, just as
there are a varied and multiple number
who receive and bestOw them.
1t is the kiss OF love, though, which COM
prises the compendium Of oscuiauOn.
Somebody speaks OF "a battery of bliss
I'm one tremendous kiss" and another
tells:
How delicious is the winning
OF a kiss at loves beginning"
Shakespeare adjures his love;
Take, Oh take those lips away
That so sWeeuy were foreswOrn.'
Shelly. VINO has written some Of the
most impassioned poetic gems, says in
Loves Philosophy:
"See the mountains kiss high Heaven,
And the waves clasp one another,
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it dsdained its brother:
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea-
What are all these kisses worth.
If thou kiss not me?"
Shakespeare probably says more about
this lapial consonance than any other
poet He tells of
Ten kisses short as one, one long as
twenty"
Romeo and Juliet fairly overflow with
saccharine illusions thereto-Romeo's lips
"are two blushing pilgrms;' and loves
ensign hangs on Juliets lips even after
death.
IL has not been so long ago that a GER
tain duchess bartered kisses for votes and
the kissing bees or church fairs were
cried down almost as soon as they be-
came prevalent.
They do say that Sherman kissed more
girls than anybody Of these latter days,
but kisses 90 a begging now, anyhow
there is more osculatory honey than there
are bees.
1T IS the Furrcptuous kisses which shake
dynasties and cause all the woe, for are
we not told
stolen sweets are always sweeter,
Stolen kisses much completer."
Kisses are the language Of tn. soul, and
their power has never been too much
over estimated; they have been the seal
of deception, no less have they been loves
votive offering; they have been the draft
on favor; just so have they been its adieu.
They have been the bud Of vice and the
rose of virtue, and they have gladdened
and saddened millions.