Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?
Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.
They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Commerce changes entirely the fate and genius of nations, by communicating arts and opinions, circulating money, and introducing the materials of luxury; she first opens and polishes the mind, then corrupts and enervates both that and the body.