Toasts and Sentiments
Anonymous
9781465533227
pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
British belles and British fashions. Laughing lovers to merry maids. Love and opportunity. Love’s slavery. Love without licentiousness, and pleasure without excess. Love, liberty, and length of blissful days. Love without fear, and life without care. Love for one. Life, love, liberty, and true friendship. TOASTS AND Love in every breast, liberty in every heart, and learning in every bead. Love at liberty, and liberty in love. Love: may it never make a wise man play the fool. Artless love and disinterested friendship. All that love can give, and sensibility enjoy. A speedy union to every lad and lass. Beauty’s best companion—Modesty. Beauty, innocence, and modest merit. Beauty without affectation, and virtue without deceit. Community of goods, unity of hearts, nobility of sentiment, and truth of feel-ing to the lovers of the fair sex. SENTIMENTS. Charms to strike the sight, and merit to win the heart. onstaney in love, and sincerity in friend-ship. Here ’s a health to the maid that is con-stant and kind, Who to charms bright as Venus' adds Diana’s mind. I '11 toast Britain’s daughters—let all fill their glasses— Whose beauty and virtue the whole world’s surpasses. May blessings attend them, go wherever they will, And foul fall the man that e'er offers them ill. TOASTS AND i Love without deceit and matrimony with I out regret. I Love’s garlands: may they ever entwine j the brows of every true-hearted lover. Lovely woman—man’s best and dearest I gift of life. I Love to one, friendship to a few, and I good-will to all. I Long life, pure love, and boundless liberty. ] May love and reason be friends, and j beauty and prudence marry. J May the lovers of the fair sex never want j the means to defend them. | May the sparks of love brighten into a flame. I May the joys of the fair give pleasure to J the heart