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Comedy (play) · Comedy

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Aphra Behn

The Emperor of the Moon · 1687

★ 1.2

Song · Musical · Great American songbook

I'm wild again, Beguiled again, A simpering, whimpering child again- Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.

Lorenz Hart

1940

★ 1.8

Play

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

John Gay

The Beggar's Opera · 1728

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play)

O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day.

William Shakespeare

The Two Gentlemen of Verona · 1616

★ 2.0

Tragedy (play)

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

William Shakespeare

1597

★ 3.6

Poem

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.

Thomas Moore

1807

★ 3.6

Play · Comedy (play)

Even as one heat another heat expels, Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

The Two Gentlemen of Verona · 1616

★ 3.7

Novel

Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary · 1856

★ 3.7

Novel · Satire

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

Voltaire

Candide · 1759

★ 3.8

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