CHARACTERS
.
—
semper
amabilem
.
HORAT.
OH
!
born
to
sooth
distress
,
and
lighten
care
;
Lively
as
soft
,
and
innocent
as
fair
;
Blest
with
that
sweet
simplicity
of
thought
So
rarely
found
,
and
never
to
be
taught
;
Of
winning
speech
,
endearing
,
artless
,
kind
,
The
loveliest
pattern
of
a
female
mind
;
Like
some
fair
spirit
from
the
realms
of
rest
With
all
her
native
heaven
within
her
breast
;
So
pure
,
so
good
,
she
scarce
can
guess
at
sin
,
But
thinks
the
world
without
like
that
within
;
Such
melting
tenderness
,
so
fond
to
bless
,
Her
charity
almost
becomes
excess
.
Wealth
may
be
courted
,
wisdom
be
rever'd
,
And
beauty
prais'd
,
and
brutal
strength
be
fear'd
;
But
goodness
only
can
affection
move
;
And
love
must
owe
its
origin
to
love
.
Illam
quicquid
agit
,
quoquo
vestigia
flectit
,
Componit
furtim
,
subsequiturque
decor
.
TIBUL
.
OF
gentle
manners
,
and
of
taste
refin'd
,
With
all
the
graces
of
a
polish'd
mind
;
Clear
sense
and
truth
still
shone
in
all
she
spoke
,
And
from
her
lips
no
idle
sentence
broke
.
Each
nicer
elegance
of
art
she
knew
;
Correctly
fair
,
and
regularly
true
:
Her
ready
fingers
plied
with
equal
skill
The
pencil's
task
,
the
needle
,
or
the
quill
.
So
pois'd
her
feelings
,
so
compos'd
her
soul
,
So
subject
all
to
reason's
calm
controul
,
One
only
passion
,
strong
,
and
unconfin'd
,
Disturb'd
the
balance
of
her
even
mind
:
One
passion
rul'd
despotic
in
her
breast
,
In
every
word
,
and
look
,
and
thought
confest
;
But
that
was
love
,
and
love
delights
to
bless
The
generous
transports
of
a
fond
excess
.