What authority we have in history or mythology for placing the head-quarters and metropolis of God Cupid in this anatomical seat rather than in any other, is not very clear; but we have got it, and it will serve as well as any other.

It's up to Old Heck or Parker to represent Cupid to the widow" "Who the hell's Cupid?"

The next object that engaged my attention was a group representing a Nymph reclining on a couch semi-supine, and a Cupid at her feet.

To intimate his secrecy in love-matters, he had an inkstand with a Cupid on it, holding a finger on his lips.

Besides, it is not 'benevolence,' but lovethe real Cupid of flesh and blood, who can first 'Touch the chord of self which, trembling, Passes in music out of sight.'

His eyes are all white, either to wear the livery of his mistress' complexion or to keep Cupid from hitting the black.

[CUPID with his train entereth into KING TANCRED'S palace.

Cesare Borgia seems to have complied immediately with her wishes; for in a second letter, dated July 22, 1502, she described the Cupid as "without a peer among the works of modern times.

Passing into the bedroom I found the young god wallowing in the finest of fine linenin a great Louis XV. bed, and there were cupids above him.

Without indulging ourselves in the pleasure of contemplating his continued mental unfolding, we may say that his growth became more rapid in this season of universal expansion; love had entered into his still compacted soul like a cupid into a rose, and was crowding it wide open.

I was wrapt in my mother's smocke the day I was begotten, I thank the Goddesse Cupid for it.

~The Captive.~ I've sought for Cupid by day and night, But he always contrived to elude me, And kept discreetly out of my sight, Nor showed his face, the crafty wight, Nor e'er for a moment sued me.