Station a Behaviour as gentle as is usual in the first Steps towards Greatnefs? And if it were poflible to express that eafy Grandeur, which did at once persuade and command; it would appear as clearly to those to come, as it does to His Contemporaries, that all the great Events which were brought to pass under the Conduct of fo well-govern❜d a Spirit, were the Bleflings of Heaven upon Wisdom and Valour; and all which feem adverse fell out by divine Permiffion, which we are not to search into. YOU have pafs'd that Year of Life wherein the moft able and fortunate Captain, before Your Time, declared he had lived enough both to Nature and to Glory; and Your Grace may make that Reflection with much more Juftice. He spoke it after he had arrived at Empire, by an Ufurpation upon those whom he had enflaved; but the Prince of Mindelheim may rejoyce in a Soveraignty which was the Gift of Him whofe Dominions He had ferved. pre GLORY established upon the uninterrupted Succefs of honourable Designs and Actions is not fubject to Diminution; nor can any Attempts prevail against it, but in the Proportion which the narrow Circuit of Rumour bears to the unlimited Extent of Fame. WE WE may congratulate Your Grace not only upon Your high Atcheivements, but likewife upon the happy Expiration of YourCommand, by which Your Glory is put out of the Power of Fortune: And when Your Perfon fhall be fo too, that the Author and Disposer of all Things may place You in that higher Manfion of Blifs and Immortality which is prepared for good Princes, Lawgivers, and Heroes, when HE in HIS due Time removes them from the Envy of Mankind, is the hearty Prayer of, My LORD, Moft Devoted Humble Servant, THE SPECTATOR. VOL. IV. N° 252. Wednesday, December 19, 1711. Erranti, paffimque oculos per cuncta ferenti. Virg. Mr. SPECTATOR, Am very forry to find by your Difcourfe upon the Eye, that you have not thoroughly studied the Nature and Force of that Part of a beauteous Face. Had you ever been in Love, you would have faid ten thousand Things, which it seems did not occur to you: Do but reflect upon the Nonfense it makes Men talk, the Flames which it is faid to kindle, the Tranfport it raifes, the Dejection it caufes in the bravest Men; ⚫ and if you do believe thofe Things are expreffed to an Extravagance, yet you will own that the Influence of it is very great which VOL. IV. ' moves B moves Men to that Extravagance. Certain it is, that the whole Strength of the Mind is sometimes seated there; that a kind Look imparts all, that a Year's Difcourfe could give you, in one Moment. What matters it what The fays to you, fee how fhe looks is the Language of all who know what Love is. When the Mind is thus fummed up and expressed in a Glance, did you never obferve a fudden Joy arife in the Countenance of a Lover? Did you never fee the Attendance of Years paid, over-paid, in an Inftant? You a SPECTATOR, and not know that the Intelligence of Affection is carried on by the Eye only; that Good-breeding has made the Tongue falfify the Heart, and act a Part of continual Conftraint, while Nature has preferved the Eyes to her felf, that fhe may not be disguised or mifrepresented. The poor Bride can give her Hand, and fay, I do, with a languishing Air to the Man fhe is obliged by cruel Parents to take for mercenary Reasons, but at the fame Time fhe cannot look as if fhe loved; her Eye is full of Sorrow, and Reluctance fits in a Tear, while the Offering of the Sacrifice is performed in what we call the Marriage Ceremony? Do you never go to Plays? Cannot you diftinguish between the Eyes of those who go to fee, from those who come to be feen? I am a Woman turned of Thirty, and am on the Obfervation a little; therefore if you or your Correfpondent had confulted me in your Difcourfe on the Eye, |