Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788 — John Shaqi
Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788Anonymous
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Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies: or Man of Pleasure's Kalendar for the Year, 1788
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English wit and humor; Prostitution -- England -- London -- Humor; Sex -- Humor
Miss
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Miss D--v--np--rt, No 14, _Lisle-street,
Leicester-fields_.
The nymphs like Nereids round her couch
were plac'd,
Where she another sea-born Venus lay;
She lay and lean'd her cheek upon her hand,
And cast a look fo languishingly sweet,
As if secure of all beholders hearts,
Neglecting she could take 'em.
This young charmer, for she is not
yet past the bloom of eighteen, has so
beautiful a face, that though here and
there the general ravager of beauty has
left his dented marks in a skin, that the
finest tints of the tulip, carnation, or
rose, blended with the hue of the fairest
lily, cannot equal, (so vastly superior is
the vermilion tinge of nature, in this her
choicest and most animated work over
all other) yet their effect is rather pleas-
ing than otherwise; and perhaps have
tempered a blaze of beauty, which with-
out them would have been insupportable.
Her eyes are of that colour, which the
celebrated Fielding has given the heroine
ofhis most admirable work, and which
dart
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dart a lustre peculiar to themselves.
From such an eye each look has power
to raise
"The loosest wishes in the chastest heart,"'
and melt the soul to all the thrillings of
unasked desire, till quite overpowered
with the transporting gaze, the senses
faint, and hasten to enjoyment. Her
hair is also black, of which great orna-
ment, nature has been lavishly bountiful,
for when loose, it flows in unlimited
tresses down to her waist; nor are the
_tendrills_ of the _moss covered grotto_ thinner
distributed, but though not yet _bushy_,
might truly be stiled _Black Heath_; how
early this _thicket_ of her maidenhead _was
penetrated_ through, by the natural invader
of _Middlesex_, we cannot pretend to say;
moft probably when it was only
a small brake; for from its present
state, and the extraordinary warmth
of the soil, it must have began to shoot
very early, and the mother of all things
must have opened the sanguinary sluices
in this delightful _Channel_, at an early
period. The mount above, has a most
delicious swell, as ambitious to receive
on it downy bed, its _swelling rival_and
_antagonist_
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_antagonist_, and it is so well clothed, that
it may be justly called the Cyprian
Grove; whilst her breasts are so fine and
so fully shaped, as to entitle her to be
stiled _en bon point_, in the richest sense of
the words, and they have a springinness
that defies any weight whatever, of amo-
rous pressure. Here the voluptuary
might revel in pleasure, better imagined
than described, in
"Soft silent rapture and extatic bliss."
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