| Tia Aria showed me the garden where herbs medicinal and herbs amatory went into the making of her famous simples. |
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| It is precisely because the characters' amatory trials are so real that we are moved by their final Mozartian resolution. |
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| Even the delicate amatory trophy of Cupid's bow and arrow has moved away from chinoiserie and rococo sources. |
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| With the reference to raptures, Herrick returns to the amatory imagery that links profane, sacred, and poetic themes. |
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| As a personal poet, he attacked enemies by name and described without inhibition his own amatory exploits. |
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| But collectively they present a hazy picture of a luckless dreamer with unfortunate amatory judgment. |
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| In short, Amiana proposes that writers of amatory fiction write something other than amatory fiction. |
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| The spectacle of poetry used as an amatory tool is one of those historical legacies much in evidence when poetry goes public. |
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| He may have painted Madonnas beautifully but his first biographer Vasari suggested his death was not due to fever but to amatory excess. |
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| Yet the syntax and sense of the poems belie the filiation of the rhyme scheme, as Meredith revises the amatory sonnet tradition, expanding the scope of lyric toward narrative. |
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| It is thus that, in the midst of her soliloquy, the bibliophage recounts how she became well schooled in the arts of amatory intrigue, courtly artifice, and rhetorical deception. |
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| While his own amatory flames are being fanned, he looks back at others who have gone before him, particularly to the period before the second world war. |
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| Andrew Marvell takes this amatory literary tradition and transforms it so that it can be used to make intelligible the dynamics of a political and religious struggle. |
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| They might have added that he had the amatory skills of Casanova. |
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| Their story lines became looser, their adventures more exotic, and their tone often amatory or even humorous. |
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| These furniture were usually decorated with amatory scenes, the paper figures were cut, then glued and finally polished. |
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| Discretion, it goes without saying, is the cornerstone of long-term success in the amatory arts. |
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| It is in 2006 that Jean-Philippe Dayraut, racing driver, launched the concept Mitjet, and created a vehicle intended for the competition with a reduced cost for amatory pilots. |
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| In his five-part lieder, Lasso makes the most of contrasting duets and trios very frequently, as in Es jagt ein Jäger a hunting song which serves as an excuse for lightly concealed amatory dalliance. |
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| It takes a laid-back man with an amatory record like his to stay straight-faced at press conferences. |
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| Though Chaucer wrote a number of moral and amatory lyrics, which were imitated by his 15th-century followers, his major achievements were in the field of narrative poetry. |
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| In so doing, he degenders game culture by moving it from an exclusively amatory and courtly realm to a more authentically competitive realm. |
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