"I took what you're calling a philtre before the first ones got here." ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1993)
In Tristan it is not essential that the philtre is a true love-philtre, but here the case is different. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
In _Tristan_ it is not essential that the philtre is a true love-philtre, but here the case is different. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
She had just swallowed a philtre of toad skin and wormwood, and was finding it difficult to concentrate. ❋ Unknown (2008)
From Middle French philtre, from Latin philtrum, from Greek philtron; akin to Greek philosophy dear. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Thus, according to St Jerome, he was driven mad by a love philtre, wrote poetry in his lucid intervals, and died by his own hand, leaving his poem to be edited posthumously by Cicero. ❋ Sedley, David (2008)
“The Rose!” said Frank quietly, seeing that his new love-philtre was working well, and determined to strike while the iron was hot, and carry the matter too far to carry it back again. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Without having first made this diversion, he would have found it impracticable to leave the house with tranquillity; but, when this bewitching philtre grew into an habit, her attachment to Ferdinand was insensibly dissolved; she began to bear his neglect with indifference, and, sequestering herself from the rest of the family, used to solicit this new ally for consolation. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He had really been present, invisible, at the council of princesses, and had heard all; but he had made up his mind to drink of the philtre, and sacrifice himself to the happiness of her he loved. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The princesses had made them drink something of a philtre, which froze the heart and left nothing but the love of dancing. ❋ Unknown (2003)
At last it was decided that Michael should be put to the test; that they would take him to the ball, and at the end of supper would give him the philtre which was to enchant him like the rest. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But if this medicine had been at the root of the sufferings which my imagination must in that case have interpreted wrongly (not that there would be anything extraordinary in that, seeing that, among lovers, the most acute mental suffering assumes often the physical identity of the woman with whom they are living), it had been, in that sense, like the philtre which, long after they have drunk of it, continues to bind ❋ Unknown (2003)
I should almost believe that the Duke's mistress has given him a philtre, as Neidschin did to the Elector of Saxony. ❋ D'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, Duchesse (2001)
And the Proficient [the Sage], how does he stand with regard to magic and philtre-spells? ❋ Plotinus (1952)
He is drawn, drawn by the arts not of magicians but of the natural order which administers the deceiving draught and links this to that, not in local contact but in the fellowship of the philtre. ❋ Plotinus (1952)
I really had something inexhaustible in my heart, and I was sure, in the end, to intoxicate her with this philtre, which I constantly poured out and which she drank, while making sport of it like a child. ❋ Various (N/A)
Some say that it is a philtre for love, and that it exterminates jealousy. ❋ Various (N/A)
So by her sorceries, and for the love of her maid, she brewed such a potion that no man, however wearied and outworn, but by drinking this philtre, would not be refreshed in heart and blood and bones. ❋ Marie De France (N/A)
