In a second-class courtesan house, the courtship was much briefer. It could even be one night; usually it went on a little bit longer. But as the years went by, that period of courtship was shorter and shorter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
For many courtesans, it was over by age 22.
There is too little courtship in the world.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
I think I'm living in the wrong century. I would have made a great courtesan. Not a mistress - I could never be kept - but a courtesan with my own rules.
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
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