"amatorious" young men (as Milton says, perhaps at too great length) who cannot see a pretty girl without losing their hearts to her. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
It is, indeed, this unique contrast of a quaint element, childish crudities and nursery indecencies and “vain and amatorious” phrase jostling the finest and highest views of life and character, shown in the kaleidoscopic shiftings of the marvellous picture with many a ❋ Unknown (2006)
The chief thing he himself teaches in his Banquet, where he shows us how we should use amatorious matters, turning our minds from sensible goods to things discernible only by the mind, that we ought not to be enslaved by the beauty of any body, study, or learning, but laying aside such weakness, should turn to the vast ocean of beauty. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In his Convivium he calls Phaedrus the father of the amatorious discourse which he had commenced; and so in his Phaedrus ❋ Unknown (2004)
Again Sidney commits himself in this same piece to the pestilent heresy of prose-poetry, saying that verse is "only an ornament of poetry;" nor is there any doubt that Milton, whether he meant it or not, fixed a deserved stigma on the _Arcadia_ by calling it a "vain and amatorious poem." ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
By this last the reproach of vain and amatorious trifling which has been so often levelled at Carew is at once thrown back and blunted. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
Milton, perceiving that such a poetic Fable might be objected to as fitter for a "mere amatorious novel" than for a controversial treatise, insinuates an apology for its introduction. ❋ David Masson (1864)
Milton, perceiving that such a poetic Fable might be objected to as fitter for a “mere amatorious novel” than for a controversial treatise, insinuates an apology for its introduction. ❋ Masson, David, 1822-1907 (1859)
Thus mine author sung it to me; and, by the leave of those who would be counted the only grave ones, this is no mere amatorious novel (though to be wise and skilful in these matters men heretofore of greatest name in virtue have esteemed it one of the highest arcs that human contemplation circling upwards can make from the glassy sea whereon she stands); but this is a serious and deep verity, showing us that Love in Marriage cannot live nor subsist unless it be mutual. ❋ David Masson (1864)
It is, indeed, this unique contrast of a quaint element, childish crudities and nursery indecencies and "vain and amatorious" phrase jostling the finest and highest views of life and character, shown in the kaleidoscopic shiftings of the marvellous picture with many a "rich truth in a tale's presence", pointed by a rough dry humour which compares well with "wut;" the alternations of strength and weakness, of pathos and bathos, of the boldest poetry (the diction of Job) and the baldest prose ❋ Anonymous (1855)
a vain amatorious poem, we feel that the finer sense of the author of ❋ Mark Pattison (1848)
Charles I in the "solitudes" of the end of his life; and by the puritanical allusion to the "vain amatorious poem of Sir Philip ❋ John Cann Bailey (1897)
- Have you heard of a band "[Amatory]"
- [Nope], [never heard] of them. ❋ Devivos (2008)
It's all good, we're [amatory] people!
Don't you think it a bit amarous when he sends flowers?
Jane: Whacha doing?
John: Thinking about fucking!
Jane: Oh, thats real amatory. [You want a cookie]?
John: I gave you one already.
Jane: There's no [rasins].
John: I decided not to put the rat turds in this time and be more amarous!
Jane *giving John an amatory look*: Oh, aren't you sweet. I'd better go get the arsenic from your pie then. I'd hate for you not to be able to finnish your after dinner mint-chocolate goodieness. I whipped it extra creamy! Just like you like it. ❋ WhoWizzedInYourCheeryO's@day;D (2012)
