One may give and take "with a gust inexpressible, a kiss of welcome, that my heart rising to my lips, stamp'd with its warmest impression"
— Cleland, John (bap. 1710, d. 1789)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. Fenton [etc.]
Date
1749
Metaphor
One may give and take "with a gust inexpressible, a kiss of welcome, that my heart rising to my lips, stamp'd with its warmest impression"
Metaphor in Context
I was soon laid in bed, and scarce languish'd an instant for the darling partner of it, before he was undress'd and got between the sheets, with his arms clasp'd round me, giving and taking, with a gust inexpressible, a kiss of welcome, that my heart rising to my lips, stamp'd with its warmest impression, concurring to my bliss, with that delicate and voluptuous emotion which Charles alone had the secret to excite, and which constitutes the very life, the essence of pleasure.
(II, 239; cf. p. 206 in Modern Library edition)
(II, 239; cf. p. 206 in Modern Library edition)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "stamp" and "heart" in HDIS (Prose); confirmed in ECCO.
Citation
At least 13 entries in ESTC (1749, 1750, 1755, 1760, 1766, 1770, 1776, 1781, 1784).
See John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 2 vols. (Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e Ralph Griffiths] in the Strand). <Link to ESTC>
Reading Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (New York: Modern Library, 2001).
See John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 2 vols. (Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e Ralph Griffiths] in the Strand). <Link to ESTC>
Reading Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (New York: Modern Library, 2001).
Date of Entry
03/10/2005
