"Maidenhead" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spot by which the carriage was now rapidly whirling. A few miles from Maidenhead, on the Henley Road, our readers will probably remember a small tract of forest-like land, lying on either side of the road. To the left the green waste bears away among the trees and bushes; and one skilled in the country may pass from that spot, through a landscape as ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... who yet had never known The long-expected Joy of being in Town; Whose careful Parents scarce permitted Heir To ride from home, unless to neighbouring Fair; At last by happy Chance is hither led, To purchase Clap with loss of Maidenhead; Turns wondrous gay, bedizen'd to Excess; Till he is all Burlesque in Mode and Dress: Learns to talk loud in Pit, grows wily too, That is to say, ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn
... part. Don't ask me! Anything you suggest is sure to be right. You know far more about these things than I do. But Maidenhead—isn't it just a little commonplace? A little noisy and ...
— Love at Second Sight • Ada Leverson
... an outlaw's, And is, indeed, no outlaw nor no thief: He is unworthy of such reverend names. Besides, he keeps a paltry whimling[271] girl, And will not bed, forsooth, before he bride. I'll stand to't, he abuses maidenhead; That will not take it, being offered, Hinders the commonwealth of able men. Another thing I hate him for again: He says his prayers, fasts eves, gives alms, does good: For these and such like crimes swears Doncaster To work the speedy death of ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... and set out from thence on the first day of the week, in the morning, intending to reach (as in point of time I well might) Isaac Penington's, where the meeting was to be that day; but when I came to Maidenhead, a thoroughfare town on the way, I was stopped by the watch ...
— The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself • Thomas Ellwood
... sentinel doth keep, With those deeds done by day, which ne'er affright Thy silken slumbers in the night. Nor has the darkness power to usher in Fear to those sheets that know no sin; But still thy wife, by chaste intentions led, Gives thee each night a maidenhead. The damask'd meadows and the pebbly streams Sweeten and make soft your dreams: The purling springs, groves, birds, and well-weav'd bowers, With fields enamelled with flowers, Present their shapes; while fantasy discloses ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick |
