No One Hath Seen Beauty

To Speak A Bold Truth, I Am, After Much Mature Deliberation, Inclined To Suspect That The Public Voice Hath, In All Ages, Done Much Injustice To Fortune, And Hath Convicted Her Of Many Facts In Which She Had Not The Least Concern.

What Caricature Is In Painting, Burlesque Is In Writing; And In The Same Manner The Comic Writer And Painter Correlate To Each Other; As In The Former, The Painter Seems To Have The Advantage, So It Is In The Latter Infinitely On The Side Of The Writer. For The Monstrous Is Much Easier To Paint Than Describe, And The Ridiculous To Describe Than Paint.

Human Life Very Much Resembles A Game Of Chess: For, As In The Latter, While A Gamester Is Too Attentive To Secure Himself Very Strongly On One Side Of The Board, He Is Apt To Leave An Unguarded Opening On The Other, So Doth It Often Happen In Life.

He In A Few Minutes Ravished This Fair Creature, Or At Least Would Have Ravished Her, If She Had Not, By A Timely Compliance, Prevented Him.

When The Effects Of Female Jealousy Do Not Appear Openly In Their Proper Colours Of Rage And Fury, We May Suspect That Mischievous Passion To Be At Work Privately, And Attempting To Undermine, What It Doth Not Attack Above-ground.