Letters of affaires love and courtship. Written to several persons of honour and quality; / by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Voiture, a member of the famous French Academy established at Paris by Cardinall de Richelieu. English'd by J.D.
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Letters of affaires love and courtship. Written to several persons of honour and quality; / by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Voiture, a member of the famous French Academy established at Paris by Cardinall de Richelieu. English'd by J.D.
Author
Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent), 1597-1648.
Publication
London, :: Printed for T. Dring and J. Starkey, and are to be sold at their shops, at the George in Fleet street near Cliffords Inne, and the Miter at the west end of St. Pauls Church,
1657.
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Subject terms
Voiture, -- Monsieur de -- (Vincent), 1597-1648.
Courtship -- Early works to 1800.
Love-letters -- Early works to 1800.
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"Letters of affaires love and courtship. Written to several persons of honour and quality; / by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Voiture, a member of the famous French Academy established at Paris by Cardinall de Richelieu. English'd by J.D." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96014.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
Pages
To the Same.
LETTER XXX.
MADAM,
I Am now convinced I shall never get out of your hands, and
that all the designes I lay to recover my libertie prove in∣effectual;
for as you do everie day adde some new unkindness
to the former which raise in me some inclinations to revolt,
so I from time to time discover some new attraction that de∣taines
me; the increase of your perfections is proportionable
to that of your rigours, and according to both are my chaines
doubled. After I had used my utmost endeavours to oppose
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whatever I thought handsome in your person, and your intel∣lectualls,
it happen•• that wh••n I see you again, I finde in you
some beautie I never had observed before, and c••nsequentlie
against which I was nor prepared; and there is in you such a
diversitie of things amiable, that there will never be a wanting
some one against which I cannot m••ke my partie good.
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