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The Literature of Kissing

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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  1. 1Epigraph — Preface
  2. 2The Kiss in History
  3. 3Significance Among the Hebrews
  4. 4Diversities in the Bible
  5. 5Symbolical Expression Among the Greeks and Romans
  6. 6Traces in English History
  7. 7Memorable Kisses
  8. 8Freaks and Phases of Local Custom
  9. 9The Kiss in Poetry
  10. 10The Kiss — A Dialogue
  11. 11The Sirens’ Song
  12. 12The Kiss
  13. 13To Charis
  14. 14The Parting Kiss
  15. 15Yielding to Temptation
  16. 16Ines Sent a Kiss to Me
  17. 17The Wandering Knight’s Song
  18. 18The Cock and the Fox
  19. 19Anacreontic
  20. 20The Landlady’s Daughter
  21. 21Blooming Nelly
  22. 22Bonnie Peggy Alison
  23. 23Dinna Kiss Afore Folk
  24. 24Don Juan and Haidee
  25. 25The First Kiss of Love
  26. 26Teacher and Pupil
  27. 27Thine at Last
  28. 28Julia’s Kiss
  29. 29To a Lady on Her Translation of Voiture’s “Kiss”
  30. 30The Kiss
  31. 31To a Child Embracing His Mother
  32. 32Kisses
  33. 33Give Me Kisses
  34. 34To My Love
  35. 35A Dinner and a Kiss
  36. 36A Hint
  37. 37Throwing Kisses
  38. 38Kisses To-Day
  39. 39Consecration — A Lover’s Mood
  40. 40“Under the Rose”
  41. 41Platonic Kisses
  42. 42How It Happened
  43. 43In Ambush
  44. 44A Long-Branch Episode
  45. 45Three Kisses
  46. 46Too Old for Kisses
  47. 47Wedding Song
  48. 48The Kiss at the Door
  49. 49A Kiss
  50. 50Five Twices
  51. 51Nursery Rhymes
  52. 52Rhapsodies
  53. 53Excerpts From the Poets
  54. 54Extracts From the Old Ballads
  55. 55The Humors of Verse. On My Refusing Angelina a Kiss Under the Mistl…
  56. 56Kiss I.
  57. 57Kiss II
  58. 58Kiss III
  59. 59Kiss IV
  60. 60Kiss V.
  61. 61Kiss VI
  62. 62Kiss VII
  63. 63Kiss VIII
  64. 64Kiss IX
  65. 65Kiss X.
  66. 66Kiss XI
  67. 67Kiss XII
  68. 68Kiss XIII
  69. 69Kiss XIV
  70. 70Kiss XV
  71. 71Kiss XVI
  72. 72The Kiss in Dramatic Literature
  73. 73Ben Jonson
  74. 74Beaumont and Fletcher
  75. 75Lilly
  76. 76Marlowe
  77. 77Marston
  78. 78Massinger
  79. 79Ford
  80. 80Heywood
  81. 81Shirley
  82. 82Dryden
  83. 83Otway
  84. 84Lansdowne — Goldsmith
  85. 85Knowles
  86. 86Schiller
  87. 87Goethe
  88. 88Alfieri — Longfellow
  89. 89Bulwer-Lytton
  90. 90Talfourd
  91. 91Miss Mitford
  92. 92Procter — Mrs. Browning
  93. 93Tennyson
  94. 94The Kiss in Fiction — Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Novels
  95. 95The Kiss in Humorous Story and Anecdote
  96. 96The Student of Upsala
  97. 97Tunnel Stories
  98. 98An Amorous Western Youth
  99. 99Love in a Street-Car
  100. 100Taking Toll
  101. 101Sudden Attachment
  102. 102Early Discrimination
  103. 103The Baffled Courtier
  104. 104A Thankful Spirit
  105. 105A Clergyman’s Joke
  106. 106“Let Me Kiss Him for His Mother”
  107. 107The Awakening
  108. 108Jean Paul’s School-Boy Experience
  109. 109The First Kiss
  110. 110Kissing the Feet
  111. 111All-Embracing Inclusion
  112. 112A Kiss in the Dark
  113. 113A Budget of Facetiæ
  114. 114Prenticeana
  115. 115Miscellaneous Aspects and Relations
  116. 116The Philosophy of Kissing
  117. 117The Science of Kissing
  118. 118The Dangerous Side
  119. 119The Treacherous Side
  120. 120The Sorrowful Side
  121. 121The Kiss in Epigram
  122. 122The Kiss in Metaphor
  123. 123The Kiss in Enigma
  124. 124Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
  125. 125Gems of Thought

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