Herbert Began

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    True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
    But borrowed thence to light us thither.
    Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    He began therefore to invest the fortress of my heart by a circumvallation of distant bows and respectful looks; he then entrenched his forces in the deep caution of never uttering an unguarded word or syllable. His designs being yet covered, he played off from several quarters a large battery of compliments. But here he found a repulse from the enemy by an absolute rejection of such fulsome praise, and this forced him back again close into his former trenches.
    Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)