The philosophy of kissing, anatomically and physiologically explained / by an amateur.

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[1840?]
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Credit: The philosophy of kissing, anatomically and physiologically explained / by an amateur. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    written to measure was also sung—poets singing their own compositions to the iyre,and these com¬ positions were sung at all the principal feasts, games and entertainments. Never in any age was the subject of kissing treated more charmingly—never, so far as the practice goes, so feelingly. One can almost see the lips of youth and beauty meeting! But Ana¬ creon knew not, more than those he loved, the science of what he so beautifully described. He paints the bard of pleasure :— He came my cordial kiss to meet.” “ Beauty sparkled in his eye, Sparkled in his eye of fire, Through the mist of soft desire, His lip exhaled, whene’er he sigh’d, The fragrance of the rosy tide, As with weak and reeling feet He came my cordial kiss to meet.” How excellent and how true this description ; for the veriest tyro in physiognomy knows that the eyes that are humid and fluctuating show a pro¬ pensity to love. Such verse is worthy of the bard who wrote-— “But this I know, and this I feel, As onward to the tomb I steal, That still as death approaches nearer, The joys of life are sweeter, dearer; And had I but one hour to live, That little hour to bliss I’d give.” Who better fitted to describe the beauties of the fair beings of whom he is enamoured, and