A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison.:
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.

Platonic Love.

PLATONIC Love is an insidious pretension, that often betrays even worthy minds into ruin, iv. 253. [219].

The person pretending Platonic Love, may be com|pared, where the best is meant, to the fly buzzing about the blaze, till it scorches its wings, iv. 253. [220].

Or, to speak still stronger, Platonic Love is a bait of the grand deceiver, to catch the unexperienced and thoughtless, ibid.

Old age only can safely determine the barriers of Pla|tonic Love, iv. 254. [220].

It ought not to be pretended to, till the parties, the man at least, can number some years beyond his grand climacteric, ibid.

Need there be a stronger proof of the danger of this pretension, than this; that it is hardly ever set on foot, but among young people? ibid.

Friendships, begun with spiritual views, between men and women of really worthy minds, have often ended grosly, ibid.