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" In this accomplished lady, love is the constant effect, because it is never the design. Yet, though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; and to love her is a liberal education... "
The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; ... - Page 285
by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1774 - 8 pages
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Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives, Volume 50

1943 - 400 pages
...of it reads: In this accomplished lady, love is the constant effect, because it is never the design. Yet though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; and to love her is a liberal education; for, it being the nature of all love to create...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1889 - 750 pages
...past. JAMES HARRIS. Neuadd Wen, Cardiff. Sir Richard Steele, in his 49th Taller, says of this lady : " Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour, and to love her is a liberal education." GB Tenby. The saying is Steele's, and may...
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Harper's Magazine, Volume 15

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1857 - 894 pages
...Steele would have spoken of her as he did of the Lady Elizabeth Hastings: "Yet though her mien carries more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior, and to love her is a liberal education." There is no romance or poetry in the old literature,...
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