Thomas Cannon

“ His Highness with great Attention Hears both Tale and Invective, then exclaims in his turn, my God; what was the Joy of him in the Middle; it is a true Pity, the noxious Stem of Pederasty yields such water-mouth Fruit, or boasts so witty an Advocate, as the Man, who, one urging with great Parade and Stress, that the very Brutes never do it, retorted, no; because they are Brutes. ”

“ My dear Amorio does not enfold a Woman; but one who more than Woman Grasps and Binds. Penetrating Love takes the Meaning and the most lib-d-nous Fire ever felt by our wondering Glower, seizes his panting Frame. ”

“ The Pleasure, all Beauty gives, is even of Necessity follow’d by Desire, when Process of Time has stor’d Man with those Lights, which are the only Erudition and Accomplishment. Nature is boundless, comprehending all animate, and inanimate Things ”

“ The World, Sir, may think my Grief does not merit it’s Compassion, and leave the Sufferer to undergo in Death her just and I flatter myself, speedy Chastisement. Ah, Madam, he cries, wou’d you impart that Grief to one who will die a thousand Deaths to serve you? Much importun’d, I frankly tell him my Story. With Transport, he Offers, and even prevails upon me to accept, his Chambers in The Temple. Is any Thing to be rejected in my Circumstances? I only desire to go pay off my Lodging: But he urges, impertinent Curiosity will put the People upon having me follow’d ”

“ Desire is an amatory Impulse of the inmost human Parts: Are not they, however constructed, and consequently impelling, Nature? Whatever Modes of Thinking the Mind from Objects receives, whatever Sensations pervade the Body, are not the Mind and Body Parcels of Nature, necessarily receiving those Thoughts, necessarily pervaded by these Sensations? Nature sometimes assumes an unusual Appearance; But the extraordinary Pederast seeking Fru-t-on, is as naturally acted as the ordinary Woman’s Man in that Pursuit. ”

“ Wherefore the Thinness of People in Spain and Italy, is not to be attributed to the Prevalence of this Passion, but to sequestering from the World Multitudes of both Sexes, who, if they embrace by Stealth, destroy the Fruit of their Embraces. ”

“ Amorio wakes late in the Morning, and hugging Hyacinth, crys;
Now let me towzle the dear Creature, who so perfectly imitated a Woman. And now, Hyacinth says,
let me clasp that charming Amorio, who wou’d touch nothing, but a Woman. They love away an Hour or two; Then rise and recruit with a long Breakfast. The Lady’s Story is the Subject of much Laughter. Amorio wants a Chair to go dress. But Hyacinth insists upon sending for his Things. Having put themselves in sallying order, they take a Coach ”

“ You may, Sir, be too well acquainted with Nature to wonder, this bank-scorning Torrent had a Reflux. The Peer, after a Fortnight’s hourly encreasing Coldness, goes to his Seat, and the Steward comes scraping into my Room, where lugging out a weighty Purse to qualify his Message, he says ”