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On Courtship And Coquetry.
ON COURTSHIP AND COQUETRY .
FOR THE FREEMASONS ' 'MAGAZINE .
HPHE sweetest intercourse , perhaps , which mortals know is that A experienced in the hours of COURTSHIP , where affection is strong and re . Torocal ; and the reason of this is clear : the mutual wish to oiease ' will be productive of every agreeable sensation ; and the knowledge , that each is to the other more dear than language can reflectionand makes for wnit
express " dispels everv unpleasing , us a , forget that wo are vulnerable by worldly accidents . Sureiy , this is < ra i "' m ' concf ' nied to he obliged to say , that the minds of some of the ftir-wxarc informed by an unworthy passion to which I know not-how to g ive a name expressive enough : Lexicograp hers have called it
Prepossessed of a liner face than has fallen to the lot of one in ' a thousand of her sex . What pity thatany ungenerous sentiment should ¦| , , va nv-e in hsr heart ! How unamnible is a want of candour m the fi-rvilp'bre- '" Not wholly insensible to admiration , Mira- has oeen , no doubt told that she has charms ; but lam afraid she has never met with one man bold , or rather friendly enough , to remind her oi h less charms of the mind Mna
the more valuable , thoug glaring . lives w ith her guardian ;—a man whose worth is above my eulogy and from ' whose conversation she . must have derived lessons Or wisdom and virtue . It would , indeed , be the heig ht or injustice to Mira , if 1 did not say , that she has good sense , and a disposition tn-t sometimes shews like good nature ; at these times her expressive , e ..-tures . joined to a pleasing manner , render her perfectly fascinating to a susceptible beholder . . rancieu
My friend Horatio was entangled ; and saw , or .. c » _ . »» , - ; -ind . " ie < = s in Minis deportment to him , which encouraged him to hoe that he might , by proper assiduity , make himself agreeab e , Q K . He had theVvai . tage , too , of being esteemed by her guardian who wis fond of her to an excess ; and though Horalio was far from . wealth-.-, yet ( shame to the mercenary herd !) my friend was counhim in his attention to Mira
tenanced by . Mira by " an urbanity of manners , which she could so easily assume th-u it seemed habitual to her , rivetted fast and more fast the chain witu which she held /* . -ra // o ; but when she found all his feelings centered in one object , and tint object herself , ungenerously sue cou d spo . t with thos e feelings , ungratefully she" could spurn a those aj te £ ons which a kind heart ( for I k . iuw his heart ' s core ) had muueed him to to her whole beside
devote to her in preference sex . Horatio had no unworthy views : his assidmt . es were toe result or a most sincere ; and still growing , affection , winch Ins heart knew not ,
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On Courtship And Coquetry.
ON COURTSHIP AND COQUETRY .
FOR THE FREEMASONS ' 'MAGAZINE .
HPHE sweetest intercourse , perhaps , which mortals know is that A experienced in the hours of COURTSHIP , where affection is strong and re . Torocal ; and the reason of this is clear : the mutual wish to oiease ' will be productive of every agreeable sensation ; and the knowledge , that each is to the other more dear than language can reflectionand makes for wnit
express " dispels everv unpleasing , us a , forget that wo are vulnerable by worldly accidents . Sureiy , this is < ra i "' m ' concf ' nied to he obliged to say , that the minds of some of the ftir-wxarc informed by an unworthy passion to which I know not-how to g ive a name expressive enough : Lexicograp hers have called it
Prepossessed of a liner face than has fallen to the lot of one in ' a thousand of her sex . What pity thatany ungenerous sentiment should ¦| , , va nv-e in hsr heart ! How unamnible is a want of candour m the fi-rvilp'bre- '" Not wholly insensible to admiration , Mira- has oeen , no doubt told that she has charms ; but lam afraid she has never met with one man bold , or rather friendly enough , to remind her oi h less charms of the mind Mna
the more valuable , thoug glaring . lives w ith her guardian ;—a man whose worth is above my eulogy and from ' whose conversation she . must have derived lessons Or wisdom and virtue . It would , indeed , be the heig ht or injustice to Mira , if 1 did not say , that she has good sense , and a disposition tn-t sometimes shews like good nature ; at these times her expressive , e ..-tures . joined to a pleasing manner , render her perfectly fascinating to a susceptible beholder . . rancieu
My friend Horatio was entangled ; and saw , or .. c » _ . »» , - ; -ind . " ie < = s in Minis deportment to him , which encouraged him to hoe that he might , by proper assiduity , make himself agreeab e , Q K . He had theVvai . tage , too , of being esteemed by her guardian who wis fond of her to an excess ; and though Horalio was far from . wealth-.-, yet ( shame to the mercenary herd !) my friend was counhim in his attention to Mira
tenanced by . Mira by " an urbanity of manners , which she could so easily assume th-u it seemed habitual to her , rivetted fast and more fast the chain witu which she held /* . -ra // o ; but when she found all his feelings centered in one object , and tint object herself , ungenerously sue cou d spo . t with thos e feelings , ungratefully she" could spurn a those aj te £ ons which a kind heart ( for I k . iuw his heart ' s core ) had muueed him to to her whole beside
devote to her in preference sex . Horatio had no unworthy views : his assidmt . es were toe result or a most sincere ; and still growing , affection , winch Ins heart knew not ,