True to his Paphian mother, trace by trace, / slowly the Love-god with prevenient art, / begins the lost Sychaeus to efface, / and living passion to a breast impart / long dead to feeling, and a vacant heart.
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Paphian
/ˈpeɪfɪən/
Synonyms for "paphian" (24 found)
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Cease admiration, sit to Cupid's feast, / The preparation to Paphian dalliance.
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I lay, as it were, in the Paphian bower of bliss, in a state of exquisite sensations quite impossible to describe.
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People passed, but they held me not. Paphian eyes rayed upon me, and left me unscathed.
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