Containing the Histories and some curious Anecdotes of the most celebrated Ladies now on the Town, and also many of their Keepers. It commonly fails to account for and occasionally seems uncomfortably to relish the suffering and exploitation of those whose histories it affects to encompass. It is sometimes compelling as a composition, but its main use for modern audiences is as a record both of a deeply unpleasant side of eighteenth-century London and of the social attitudes which fostered the kinds of commerce and objectification which it embodies.
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Map could not be loaded - please enable Javascript! Oh, pleasing talk, to paint the ripen'd charms Of youth untutor'd in the female arts; To see instinctively desire blaze out, And warm the mind with all its burning joys. The tell-tale eyes in liquid pools sustain'd, The throbbing breast now rising, now suppress't; The thrilling bliss quick darting thro' the frame, The short fetch'd sighs , the snow white twining limbs, The sudden gush, and the extatic oh.
SUCH our all pleasing Lโstโr leads the train, and, smiling like the morn, unfolds her heaven of beauties. Oh, for a Guido's touch , or Thomson's thought , to paint the richness of her unequall'd charms; every perfection that can possibly adorn the face and mind of Woman seem centered in this be- witching girl; hither resort then, ye genuine lovers of beauty and good sense; here, whilst Plutus reigns, may you revel nor know satiety; here feast the longing appetite, and return with fresh vigor to every attack.
