Public Advertiser (1781) [ Practices ]
… the Loss of a Crown; and if Lucre alone possesses the Boson, Thorns grow there without Restraint. The vivid Glow which plays upon the Face of Beauty, and calls a divine Lustre on the humane Face, is dimmed by that Attention which is necessary to preserve the Charatter of a good Player; and that Sprightliness which makes its Way irresistibly into the Heart, is lost amidst the Ideas which are raifed … the Female Voice is too often made dissonant by the Peevishnefs occasioned by a Loss, and the late Hours occasioned by playing a double Pool, is more destructive of the delicate Charms of Beauty, than a Fever or a Confumption. The Love of …
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