The whole treatment is highly allegorical, and the lusciousness of Spenser is imitated and overdone.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
"My lord," said I, "what a lusty lusciousness in this pear!
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009
He saw Roscoe Orlando Gibbons openly gloating over its floridity, and bringing up other members, old and young, to gloat with him; but he thought it more than doubtful whether its dripping lusciousness would prove grateful to the dry mind and sapless person of Oliver Dowd.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller