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Firmness yclept n heroes, kings, and seamen, That is, when they succeed; but greatly blamed,

As obstinacy, both in men and women, Whene'er their triumph pales, or star is tamed:

And 'twill perplex the casuist in morality, To fix the due bounds of this dangerous quality. xc.

Had Buonaparte won at Waterloo,

It had been firmness; now 'tis pertinacity: Must the event decide between the two?

I leave it to your people of sagacity To draw the line between the false and true, If such can e'er be drawn by man's capacity: My business is with Lady Adeline, Who in her way, too, was a heroine.

XCI.

She knew not her own heart: then how should I?
I think not she was then in love with Juan:
If so, she would have had the strength to fly
The wild sensation, unto her a new one :
She merely felt a common sympathy

(I will not say it was a false or true one) In him, because she thought he was in dangerHer husband's friend, her own, young, and a stranger.

XCII.

She was, or thought she was, his friend-and this Without the farce of friendship, or romance Of Platonism, which leads so oft amiss [France Ladies who have studied friendship but in Or Germany, where people purely kiss.

To thus much Adeline would not advance; But of such friendship as man's may to man be, She was as capable as woman can be.

XCIII.

No doubt the secret influence of the sex
Will there, as also in the ties of blood,
An innocent predominance annex,

And tune the concord to a finer mood.
If free from passion, which all friendship checks,
And your true feelings fully understood,
No friend like to a woman earth discovers,
So that you have not been, nor will be, lovers.

XCIV.

Love bears within its breast the very germ
Of change; and how should this be otherwise?
That violent things more quickly find a term,
Is shown through nature's whole analogies;
And how should the most fierce of all be firm?
Would you have endless lightning in the skies?
Methinks Love's very title says enough;
How should the tender passion e'er be tough?

XCV.

Alas! by all experience, seldom yet

(I merely quote what I have heard from many) Had lovers not some reason to regret

The passion which made Solomon a zany.

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X.

Fair Adeline, the more ingenuous
Where she was interested (as was said),
Because she was not apt, like some of us,
To like too readily, or too high bred
To show it (points we need not now discuss),-
Would give up artlessly both heart and head
Unto such feelings as seem'd innocent,
For objects worthy of the sentiment.

ΧΙ.

Some parts of Juan's history, which Rumour, That live-gazette, had scatter'd, to disfigure, She had heard ; but women hear with more good humour

Such aberrations, than we men of rigour : Besides, his conduct since in England grew more Strict, and his mind assumed a manlier vigour; Because he had, like Alcibiades,

The art of living in all climes with ease.

XII.

His manner was perhaps the more seductive,
Because he ne'er seem'd anxious to seduce;
Nothing affected, studied, or constructive,
Of coxcombry or conquest: no abuse
Of his attractions marr'd the fair perspective,
To indicate a Cupidon broke loose,
And seem to say, 'Resist us if you can '—
Which makes a dandy, while it spoils a man.

XIII.

They are wrong-that's not the way to set about it;

As, if they told the truth, could well be shown. But, right or wrong, Don Juan was without it: In fact, his manner was his own alone. Sincere he was—at least you could not doubt it, In listening merely to his voice's tone. The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.

XIV.

By nature soft, his whole address held off
Suspicion though not timid, his regard
Was such as rather seem'd to keep aloof,
To shield himself, than put you on your guard:
Perhaps 'twas hardly quite assured enough,

But modesty's at times its own reward,
Like virtue; and the absence of pretension
Will go much further than there's need to men-

tion.

XV.

Serene, accomplish'd, cheerful, but not loud; Insinuating, without insinuation; Observant of the foibles of the crowd,

Yet ne'er betraying this in conversation; Proud with the proud, yet courteously proud, So as to make them feel he knew his station And theirs-without a struggle for priority, He neither brook'd nor claim'd superiority

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[Thou finely would'st say all?
Say something well

Say something ill if thou
Wouldst bear the bell
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This extraordinary and flourishing German colony in America does not entirely exclude matrimony, as the 'Shakers' do, but lays such restrictions upon it as prevent more than a certain quantum of births within a certain number of years: which births (as Mr Hulme observes) 'generally arrive in a little flock like those of a farmer's lambs, all within the same month perhaps.' These Harmonists (so called from the name of their settlement) are represented as a remarkably flourishing, pious, and quiet people. See the various recent writers

on America.

XLII.

then there was the Miss Audacia Shoestring, A dashing demoiselle of good estate, Whose heart was fix'd upon a star or blue string; But whether English dukes grew rare of late, Or that she had not harp'd upon the true string By which such sirens can attract our great, She took up with some foreign younger brother, A Russ or Turk-the one's as good as t'other.

XLIII.

And then there was-but why should I go on,
Unless the ladies should go off?-there was
Indeed a certain fair and fairy one,

Of the best class, and better than her class-
Aurora Raby, a young star who shone

O'er life, too sweet an image for such glass; A lovely being, scarcely form'd or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded;

Jacob Tonson, according to Mr Pope, was accused to call his writers able pens,' 'persons of honour, and especially 'eminent hands. Vide Correspondence, &c

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