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Lust See also Profligacy, Promiscuity. Aeshma fiend of evil passion. [Iranian Myth.: Leach, 17] lusty whores; bedded from Egypt to Babylon. [O.T.: Ezekiel 23:1–21] lustful fairy. [Ital. Lit.: Orlando Furioso] supposedly virtuous monk goatishly ravishes maiden. [Br. Lit.: The Monk] asked by Isabella to cancel her brother’s death sentence, Angelo agrees if she will yield herself to him. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Measure for Measure] patron of lust and prostitution. [Gk. Myth.: Espy, 16] symbol of the attractions of the senses. [Ital. Lit.: Jerusalem Delivered]
personification of lasciviousness. [Br. Lit.: The Purple Island, Brewer Handbook, 67] goddess of sexual love. [Phoenician Myth.: Zimmer-man, 32] female spirit of lust. [Jew. Myth.: Jobes, 141] shy gentleman afloat on sea of lasciviousness. [Am. Lit.: The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B] demon of libidinousness and falsehood. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] Porgy’s “temporary” woman; she knew weakness of her will and flesh. [Am. Lit.: Porgy, Magill I, 764–766; Am. Opera: Gershwin, Porgy and Bess] family given to the pleasures of flesh. [Russ. Lit.: The Brothers Karamazov] loathsome hag; personification of fleshly lust. [Br. Lit.: The Purple Island, Brewer Handbook, 180] (1725–1798) loving (and likable) libertine. [Ital. Hist.: Espy, 130] (69–30 B.C.) Egyptian queen, used sex for power. [Egyptian Hist.: Wallechinsky, 323] literature’s most active seducer: “in Spain, 1003.” [Span. Lit.: Benét, 279; Ger. Opera: Mozart, Don Giovanni, Espy, 130–131] condemn Susanna when carnal passion goes unrequited. [Apocrypha: Daniel and Susanna] fancies himself a lady-killer. [Br. Lit.: Merry Wives of Windsor] a tomcat in every sense. [Comics: Horn, 266–267] lust incarnate. [Art: Hall, 139] attribute of sexual desire incarnate. [Art: Hall, 144] attribute of Pan and the satyr; symbolically, lust. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 190; Art: Hall, 157] lusts after a young woman viewed at her window, but turns the experience into a hysterical sense of redemption. [Am. Lit.: Winesburg, Ohio] monk advocating lust. [Fr. Lit.: Gargantua and Pantagruel] sensual female; mythical first wife of Adam. [O.T.: Genesis 4:16] symbol of licentiousness. [Indian Myth.: Leach, 333]
heartless libertine and active seducer. [Br. Lit.: Fair Penitent, Espy, 129] personification of wantonness. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] (1818–1861) beguiling mistress to the eminent. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 325] fiend; provokes men to gratify their lust. [Br. Lit.: King Lear] man-goat of bawdy and lecherous ways. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 798] monk converts a courtesan but cannot overcome his lust for her. [Fr. Lit.: Anatole France Thaïs in Benét, 997] attribute of lust personified. [Art: Hall, 247] personification of fornication. [Br. Lit.: The Purple Island, Brewer Handbook, 865] monstrous genitals led him on the wayward path. [Rom. Myth.: Hall, 252] refrains from using his tuberculosis cure to save the life of a man whose wife he coveted. [Br. Lit.: Shaw The Doctor’s Dilemma in Sobel, 173] middle-aged lady lusts after young graduate. [Am. Lit.: The Graduate; Am. Music: “Mrs. Robinson”] in her provocative Dance of the Seven Veils. [Aust. Opera: R. Strauss, Salome, Westerman, 417] jasmine flower symbolizing lust. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 175] devotes his life to sexual and other sensuous indulgences. [Br. Lit.: Beckford Vathek] first Duke of Buckingham and libidinous dandy. [Br. Lit.: Waverley] weeping over her husband’s corpse, she is cheered by a compassionate sentry and they become ardent lovers in the burial vault. [Rom. Lit.: Satyricon] the many loves of this god have made his name a byword for sexual lust. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 297–301] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If you have read Swedenborg, you will remember his denunciation of the lust of variety. Beneath his talk of virginity she began to think there was a lust greater than in all the others. But let it be admitted, for argument's sake, that mere wantonness and lust of domination would be sufficient to beget that disposition; still it may be safely affirmed, that the sense of the constituent body of the national representatives, or, in other words, the people of the several States, would control the indulgence of so extravagant an appetite. |
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