The entertaining correspondent; or, newest and most compleat polite letter writer. In three parts ... To which is prefixed, a large introduction, containing directions and proper forms to be observed in writing familiar letters on all occasions, and addressing persons of eminent rank and station. For the use of young gentlemen, ladies, tradesmen, &c / [John Tavernier].

Tavernier, John

Date:: 1759

Credit: The entertaining correspondent; or, newest and most compleat polite letter writer. In three parts ... To which is prefixed, a large introduction, containing directions and proper forms to be observed in writing familiar letters on all occasions, and addressing persons of eminent rank and station. For the use of young gentlemen, ladies, tradesmen, &c / [John Tavernier]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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‘gnd worthips this idol of his own intoxicated brain, runs to her, talks fultian and tragedy by wholefale. Mils bluthes, looks down, admires his eloquence, pities the dying {wain, catches the infection, and ‘éonfents, BPE? pa and mamma will give theirs. Tue old people ftrike the bargain ; the young ones are mad and light-headed with thofe ravifhing fcenes their warm -conttitutions and diftempered fancics prefent to their view. Wert, they are married, and have taken their fill of loves The young fpark’s rant is over ; he finds his ima- ginary goddefs mere fiefh and blood, with the addition | of a vain, affected, filly girl; and when his theatrical drefs is off, the finds he was a lying, hot-brained cox- comb. Tus come to their fenfes, and the mafk thrown off, they look at one another like utter {lrangers, and per- fons juft come out ofa trance. He finds by experience he fell in love with his own [no] ideas, and fhe with her own vanity. Thus plucked from the foaring heights of their warm and irregular paflions, they are vexed at, and afhamed of themfelves firft, and heartily hate each other afterwards. From hence arife reproaches, con- tradi@tions, &c. Thus all their fantaftic blifs ends in fhame and repentance. In ferious truth, how can it be otherwife ? Passions are extremely tranfient and unfteady; and Jove, with no other fupport, well ever be fhort-lived and fleeting. {tis a fire that is foon extinguifhed; and where there is no folid efteem and well-cemented friend- fhip to blow it up, it rarely lights again, but from fome accidental impulfes, by no means to b- -pended on; which a contrariety of tempers, ‘the fatalities of ficknefs, Y¥

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