WHEN a person is once heartily in Love, the little faults and caprices of his Mistress, the jealousies and quarrels to which that Commerce is so subject, however unpleasant they be, and rather connected with Anger and Hatred, are yet to be found, in many instances, to give additional force to the prevailing Passion. Love. Middleton. THE treasures of the deep are not so precious DIDST thou but know the kindle fire with snow, IDST thou but know the inly touch of Love, As seek to quench the fire of Love with words. Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason. Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; He makes sweet Music with the enamel'd stones, He overtaketh in his pilgrimage; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild Ocean. LOVE, that has nothing but Beauty to keep it in good health, is short-lived. No Cord or Cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as Love can do with only a single Thread. Lave. Goldsmith. LOVE, when founded in the Heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies of Fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the Passions only argues little understanding or great Insincerity. A SMILES from reason flow, to Brutes denied, FFECTIONS, like the Conscience, are rather to be led than drawn; and 'tis to be feared, they that marry where they do not love, will love where they do not marry. Lobe. Shakespeare. SPIRIT of Love, how quick and fresh art thou! Receiveth as the Sea; nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute! so full of Shapes is Fancy, LET Grace and Goodness be the principal loadstone of thy Affections. For Love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true Virtue, will always continue. LET me but bear your Love, I'll bear your Cares. is as false to play with Fire as to dally with Gallantry. for that reason must by a Woman be kept at such a distance, that she may not be within the danger of doing the most usual thing in the world, which is conspiring against herself: else the humble Gallant, who is only admitted as a trophy, very often becometh the conqueror; he putteth on the style of Victory, and from an admirer groweth into a Master, for so he may be called from the moment he is in possession. THE Love. Mrs. Cowley. HE woman that has not touched the Heart of a man before he leads her to the Altar, has scarcely a chance to charm it, when Possession and Security turn their powerful arms against her. WHERE there exists the united in Death than sepa HERE there exists the most ardent and true Love, rated in Life. Love. Colton. CORPOREAL charms may indeed gain admirers, but there must be mental ones to retain them; and Horace had a delicate feeling of this, when he refused to restrict the Pleasures of the Lover merely to his eyes, but added also those of the Ear. HERE Love has once obtained influence, any Seasoning, I believe, will please. OVE can be founded upon Nature only, or the appearance of it, for this reason; however a peruke may tend to soften the human features, it can very seldom make amends for the mixture of Artifice which it discovers. OVE sees what no eye sees; Love hears what no ear Lovers, and what never rose in the heart of man Love prepares for its object. Love. Shakespeare. SHE bids you All on the wanton Rushes lay you down, E never love heartily but once, and that is the first W we suceeding inclinations are less invo luntary. Love. Colton. a dangerous experiment to call in Gratitude as I an ally is always pays, obligation never; and the moment it becomes lukewarm and evanescent, reminiscences on the score of Gratitude serve only to smother the flame. Love. Shakespeare. IT were all one That I should love a bright partic'lar Star, OVE is an alliance of Friendship and of Lust; if the refined, but if the latter, gross and sensual. Love. Shakespeare. music be the food of Love, play on: I Give in excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.- TELL this youth what 'tis to Love.— It is to be all made of Fantasy, All made of Passion, and all made of wishes; All Humbleness, all Patience and Impatience, LEAVE you your power to draw, And I shall have no Power to follow you. IDICULE, perhaps, is a better expedient against Hudibras and Don Quixote may be as effectual to cure the extravagancies of this Passion, as any one of the old philosophers. Love. — Addison. HE pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that in courtship, provided sincere, and the party beloved kind with Discretion. Love, Desire, Hope, all the pleasing motions of the Soul, rise in the pursuit. Love. Hawkesworth. S Love without Esteem is volatile and capricious; Esteem without Love is languid and cold. F ever (as that ever may be near) If you meet in some fresh cheek the power of Fancy, Then shall you know the Wounds invisible TRUE L UE Love can no more be diminished by showers of evil than Flowers are marred by timely Rains. Love. - Euripides. THAT Love alone, which Virtue's laws controul, OVE may exist without Jealousy, although this is rare; but Jealousy may exist without Love, and this is common. Love. Shakespeare. O YOU leaden messengers, That ride upon the violent speed of Fire, Fly with false aim: move the still-piercing air, WE E always dread the sight of the person we Love when we have been coquetting elsewhere. |