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The gentleman who wanted Mars was made a Mars of; he who aped Byron received a Byronic attitude. As to the ladies, whether they wished to be Corinnas, or Undines, or Aspasias, he was quite ready to accommodate them, and even added, from his own imagination, a universal air of distinction, which never does any harm, and which sometimes makes people excuse even want of resemblance.
But heroes on paper might degenerate into vagabonds in practice, Corinnas into courtezans. Thus a refined and permanent individual attachment is intended to supply the place and avoid the inconveniences of marriage; but vows of eternal constancy, without church security, are found to be fragile.
And these female creatures these Corinnas, Perillas, Myrhas, and Electras can it be possible that they are always striving, for their own strange ends, to rouse the sleeping animal and break the kindly veils? and are they permitted to use such amiable enticements as Herrick describes?
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