"is a city beside the sea. The sea is the Assyrian; the city is the metropolis of Phoenicia; its people are the forefa…"

"I saw a picture hanging up which was a landscape and a seascape in one. The painting was of Europa: the sea depicted …"

"As soon as I had seen her, I was lost. For Beauty’s wound is sharper than any weapon’s, and it runs through the eyes …"

"Birds there were too: some, tame, sought for food in the grove, pampered and domesticated by the rearing of men; othe…"

"First she sang Homer's passage about the boar fighting a lion, then a more lyrical song in praise of the rose. The gi…"

"The story of Clitophon almost brings before our eyes a bitter passion but a moral life, and the most chaste conduct o…"

"Don't begin with the Leucippe and Clitophon and the Daphnis and Chloe, but read first the more serious works of the g…"

"Leukippe should astonish, beguile, repel, and linger with a peculiar aftertaste."

"In it is declared the History of Europa, the Countrey and parents of Clitiphon, the comming of Panthia and Leucippe f…"

"Charmides Generall of the army, falleth in love with Leucippe: he declare[t]h it to Menelaeus, craving his helpe ther…"