THE pleafures, which an agreeable fociety beftows, are indeed the moft elegant we can tafte ; but even that company we like beft would grow infipid and tirefome, were we to be for ever in it ; and to a perfon who knows how to think juftly, it would certainly... The Female Spectator - Page 168by Eliza Fowler Haywood - 1755Full view - About this book
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