“The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid.”
To a Lady with a Present of Flowers.
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Thomas Tickell11
English poet and man of letters 1685–1740Related quotes
“Widowed wife and wedded maid.”
Walter Scott book The Betrothed
The Betrothed, Chap. xv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Bhartrihari (570) Indian linguist, poet and writer
Nītiśataka 2
Variant translation from K.M. Joglekar:
That woman about whom I constantly meditate has no affection for me; she, however, yearns after another who is attached to someone else; while a certain woman pines away for me. Fie on her, on him, on the God of Love, on that woman, and on myself.
Śatakatraya
Angel Chooi Malaysian teacher, model, online streamer and cosplayer
Source: Angel Chooi cited in " The rise of maid cafés in Malaysia and why it’s actually kinda cool https://eksentrika.com/maid-cafe-malaysia-king-angel/" on Eksentrika.
“The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid.”
James Thomson (poet) The Seasons
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 625.
“Tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.”
Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) British writer
Verse.
“Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.”
Interdum animus dominarum ex ancillarum habitu iudicatur.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 54
Letters
“There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Long Trail http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/volumeXI/longtrail.html, Stanza 5. <br class="br">Other works <br class="br">Context: There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,<br>Or the way of a man with a maid;<br>But the fairest way to me is a ship's upon the sea<br>In the heel of the North-East Trade.