...now in that accursed school of enervated morals and false sentiment ; and whether he boldly put aside the " lilies and languors of virtue for the roses and raptures of vice," by using his influence over Minnie for the plain, coarse purpose of corruption ; or availed himself...

...congregation in the Rolls Chapel. There is an exotic, erratic poet, who speaks of thoee who exchange 'The lilies and languors of virtue For the roses and raptures of vice.' So different to the true knight, ' Who reverenced his conscience as a There they will find that though...

...now in that accursed school of enervated morals and false sentiment; and whether he boldly put aside the " lilies and languors of virtue for the roses and raptures of vice," by using his influence over Minnie for the plain, coarse purpose of corruption; or availed himself...

...and languors of love—by questionings adapted to the lips, which men touch, " And change in a trice The lilies and languors of virtue, For the roses and raptures of vice." 1 Let me refer to a strikinc; chapter in H. Eenan's "Antichrist." To it sorrow and disappointment is...

...Toolsah Bae, widow of Jeswant Rao Holkar, were both ladies of capricious tastes, who preferred to change the " Lilies and languors of virtue For the roses and raptures of vice." Toolsah Bae was altogether a kind of Hindoo Messalina, and, when she was taken and beheaded on the...

...right and wish to do what is right, what you think of the poet who advises you to forsake, as he says, The lilies and languors of virtue, For the roses and raptures of vice ? The poets of this school are nothing if not alliterative : their silly conceit of grouping together...

...insipid as prayer. Dear youth, the wild women won't hurt you; You'll find an exchange will be nice Of the "lilies and languors of virtue" For the roses and raptures of vice. The pearl of your Passion is priceless, Cast it not before virtuous swine. Life never was meant to...

...prayers to the pagan ideal to Come down and redeem us from virtue, upon his youthful zest in leaving The lilies and languors of virtue For the roses and raptures of vice, he tried to dissect his motives. "I had," he said, "a touch of Byronic ambition to be thought an eminent...

...insipid as prayer. Dear youth, the wild women won't hurt you; You'll find an exchange will be nice Of the "lilies and languors of virtue" For the roses and raptures of vice. The pearl of your Passion is priceless, Cast it not before virtuous swine. Life never was meant to...

...the dangerous lines of Swinburne's 'Dolores', where the poet asks: Who would not change in a trice The lilies and languors of virtue For the roses and raptures of vice? In many senses this is different territory, but the symbolism depends on the deployment of the topos...