Early, very early, did she dismiss blushes
from
her cheek: she could not blush because she could not doubt; and
silence,
whatever was her subject, was as much a stranger to her as
diffidence.
RICHARDSON.
Quo fugit Venus! heu! Quove color? decens
Quo motus? Quid habes illius, illius,
Quae spirabat amores,
Quae me surpuerat mihi?
HORACE, Odes.
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CLELIA.
Her lively and pleasant Manners--Her Reading and Decision--Her
Intercourse with different Classes of Society--Her kind of
Character--The favoured Lover--Her Management of him: his of her--
After one Period, Clelia with an Attorney; her Manner and Situation
there--Another such Period, when her Fortune still declines--
Mistress of an Inn--A Widow--Another such Interval: she becomes
poor and infirm, but still vain and frivolous--The fallen Vanity--
Admitted into the House: meets Blaney.
WE had a sprightly nymph--in every town
Are some such sprights, who wander up and down;
She had her useful arts, and could contrive,
In Time's despite, to stay at twenty-five; -
"Here will I rest; move on, thou lying year,
This is mine age, and I will rest me here.
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