cannot resist being pleased, if you give him an Account of a delicious Meal; or
Clodius
, if you describe a Wanton Beauty: Tho' at the same time, if you do not awake those Inclinations in them, no Men are better Judges of what is just and delicate in Conversation. But as I have before observed, it is easier to talk to the Man, than to the Man of Sense.
It is remarkable, that the Writers of least Learning are best skilled in the luscious Way.
Poetesses of the Age have done Wonders in this kind; and we are obliged to the Lady who writ
Ibrahim
, for introducing a preparatory Scene to the very Action, when the Emperor throws his Handkerchief as a Signal for his Mistress to follow him into the most retired Part of the Seraglio. It must be confessed his
Turkish