ithful wife'.

35. 'Colours artfully spread upon canvas may entertain the eye, but not
affect the heart; and she, who takes no care to add to the natural
graces of her person, any excelling qualities, may be allowed still to
amuse as a picture, but not to triumph as a beauty.

'When _Adam_ is introduced by _Milton_ describing _Eve_ in Paradise, and
relating to the angel the impressions he felt upon seeing her at her
first creation, he does not represent her like a _Grecian Venus_, by her
shape of features, but by the lustre of her mind which shone in them,
and gave them their power of charming.

36.

Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her eye,
In all her gestures dignity and love:

'Without this irradiating power, the proudest fair-one ought to know,
whatever her glass may tell her to the contrary, that her most perfect
features are uninformed and dead.

'I cannot better close this moral, than by a short epitaph, written by
_Ben Johnson_ with a spirit which nothing could inspire, but such an
object as I have been describing.

'Underneath this stone doth lie,
As much virtue as could die;
Which when alive did vigour give
To as much beauty as could live.'

_I am, Sir_

_Your most humble Servant_,

R.B.

SPECTATOR, Vol. I. No.33.

_Honour_.

1. Every principle that is a motive to good actions, ought to be
encouraged, since men are of so different a make, that the same
principle does not work equally upon all minds. What some men are
prompted to by conscience, duty, or religion, which are only different
names for the same thing, others are prompted to by honour.

2. The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is
only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as
have been cultivated by great examples, or a refined education. This
paper, therefore, is chiefly designed for those who by means of any of
these advantages, are, or ought to be, actuated by this glorious
principle.

3. 'But as nothing is more pernicious than a principle or action, when
it is misunderstood, I shall consider honour with respect to three sorts
of men. First of all, with regard to those who have a right notion of
it. Secondly, with regard to those who have a mistaken notion of it. And
thirdly, with regard to those who treat it as chimerical, and turn it
into ridicule.

4. 'In the first place, true honour, though it be a different principle
from religion