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What brick and mortar idylls, what romances au cinquième, what joyous epithalamiums, what gay improvident ménages, what kisses, what laughter, what tears, what lightly-spoken and lightly-broken vows those old walls could have told of!

From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

Come, let me have the Sea-Fight; I like that better than a thousand of your wanton epithalamiums.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

We come now to the three celebrated epithalamiums of Catullus.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

This nuptial hymn has been the model of many epithalamiums, particularly that of Jason and Creusa, sung by the chorus in Seneca’s Medea, and of Honorius and Maria, in Claudian.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

On the other hand, he is entirely original in his epithalamiums, charming descriptions of the felicity of young conjugal life and the sweet blessings of pure love.

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav