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than a kind of perpetual Youth, an unmovable station upon the point of One-and-twenty, we may guess how much admir'd, and how much coveted it would be, by the Care which People take of their Embonpoint. How many use their Thrid of Life, as prudent Penelope did her Web? when being wound up to a Real Age, they unravel it again to a seeming Youth? So very willing they are to live, and yet so very unwilling to outlive Beauty, that they will needs court Eternity by a Nursery of Colours. So that when fifty or threescore years begin to be legible in their Faces, ( characters there dug by the Plough of Time, ) A Dash or two of their Pencil will strike off Twenty. And therefore the years which they have liv'd, though scarce the Childhood of Life Eternal, may yet assist them in its Discovery as far as a little imperfect Guess. They who fain would never dye, can tell me best how sweet is life; And They who fain would ne're be old, can best inform me of Eternity. |
than a kind of perpetual Youth, an unmovable station upon the point of One-and-twenty, we may guess how much admired, and how much coveted it would be, by the Care which People take of their Embonpoint. How many use their Thrid of Life, as prudent Penelope did her Web? when being wound up to a Real Age, they unravel it again to a seeming Youth? So very willing they Are to live, and yet so very unwilling to outlive Beauty, that they will needs court Eternity by a Nursery of Colours. So that when fifty or threescore Years begin to be legible in their Faces, (characters there dug by the Plough of Time,) A Dash or two of their Pencil will strike off Twenty. And Therefore the Years which they have lived, though scarce the Childhood of Life Eternal, may yet assist them in its Discovery as Far as a little imperfect Guess. They who fain would never die, can tell me best how sweet is life; And They who fain would never be old, can best inform me of Eternity. |
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