Digitized by GooSle. The accomplishments of this lady have sufficiently signalized her, thougb the bashfulness of her residence has done all tbat in it lay to shroud her from applause.
I am very sensible she is like to suffer, as your most racy and generous liquors do, in the transfusion. She flourishes in ber own soil, but will look faint and withering ill comparison of the primitive piece. However, I hope it may provoke a hand as celebrated as her own to ravish the pencil from such a Dauber as I am about to shew mvself. I confess, too, I were better have initiated my band with an inferior draught; yet suppose me in the best circumstances, and I am only like to give it you in shade and miniature, and therefore ascribe none of the unfinished strokes to the original.
I shall further add, that, if this first Cbaracter meets with encouragement, I shall send you the Characters of Dr. Row, Mr. Cunninglutm, Dr. She is a Lady by birth and fortune, and i. This is the reason that she never runs into those little extravagances, or commits those witty fooleries, which many of them who possess the first are guilty of for want of the latter Wit in Women being often a very ungovernable thing ; but she bears her advantages with less ostentation and more temper than those of her sex who have any excellency above- the rest usually do; which is a virtue by.
So that it is in her Friendship as it is in Musick, where,. She is very scrupulous in all tbe little and indifferent actions of her life; and a most rigorous observer of tbat whicb. She bath a sense of tbingaby her. By this I mean only such as are not material, but indifferent ill themselves, and are the subject of ordinary dispute and conversation. And her design as I have told you being ooly divertisement-, you shall see her one time defend a proposition with all the earnestness imaginable; when, perhaps, the next time you meet her, the stream will be diverted into another current.
So that her opinions are like Laws in a State, which cbange with tbe eircumstances of affairs; and that which was before of force and valid is made void upon some present exigence and necessity.
