Identifier: historyoflifeadv1748defo (find matches)
Title: The history of the life and adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell
Year: 1748 (1740s)
Authors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 Hill, Thomas, 1661-1734, ill Bond, William, d. 1735, supposed author Wallis, John, 1616-1703 Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, engraver
Subjects: Campbell, Duncan, 1680?-1730
Publisher: London: : Printed for, and sold by James Fleming...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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y a Circle of the moft beautiful Fe-males that ever my Eyes beheld. In the Centreof this Angelick Tribe was feated a heavenlyYouth, with the mofl: winning comelinefs ofAfpeft, that ever pleafed the Sight of any Be-holder of either Sex ; his Face was divinelyFair, and tingM only with luch a fprightlyBlufli, as a Painter would ufe to Colour thePifture of Health with, and the Complexionwas varnifhd over by a blooming, like thatofflourifhing Fruit, which had not yet felt thefirft Nippings of an unkind and an uncivil Air;with this Beauty was joind fuch a fmilingdraught of all the Features, as is the refultof Pleafantry and good Humour. His Eyeswere large, full of Luftre, Majefl:ick, wellfet, and the Soul flione fo in them, as toldthe Spectators plainly, how great was the in-ward Vivacity of his Genius ; The Hair ofhis Head was thick and reclind far belowhis Shoulders; it was of a fine Silver Colour,and hung down in Ringlets like the curlingTendrils of a copious Vine. He was by the Women i-
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CJl Q>eiiJ iThfur/nJ ^/iW?*. Duncan Campbeli.. ii Women entertained, according to the Claim,which fo many Perfections joining in a Youthjuft ripening into Manhood, might lay to thebenevolent Difpofitions of the tender Sex.One was holding the Bafon of Water, ano-ther wafhing a Hand, a Third with a Toweldrying his Face, which another Fair had gree-dily fnatclVd the Pleafure of wafliing betor^while a Fourth was difpofing into order hisSilver Hairs with an Ivory Comb, in an Handas White, and which a Monarch might havebeen proud to have had fo employd in adjuft-ing the Crown upon his Head ; a Fifth wasfetting into Order his Cravat; a Sixth ftole aKifs, and bluihd at the innocent Pleafure,and miftook her own Thoughts as if (he kifsdthe Angel and not the Man; and they all ra-ther feemd to adore than to love him, as ifthey had taken him not for a Perfon that Qarjoyd the frequent Gift of the fecond Sight>but as if he had been fome little Prophet pe-culiarly infpired ; and while t

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