Such is life, lovely artemisia!"
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
"What makes you call me artemisia?
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
Safer: for, not to consider how a successfulle or unsuccessfulle Passion for a human Being of like Infirmities with ourselves, oft stains and darkens and shortens the Current of Life, even the chastened Love of a Mother for her Child, as of Octavia, who swooned at 'Tu, Marcellus, eris,'-or of Wives for their Husbands, as artemisia and Laodamia, sometimes amounting to Idolatry-nay, the Love of Friend for Friend, with alle its sweet Influences and animating Transports, yet exceeding the Reasonableness of that of David for Jonathan, or of our blessed Lord for St. John and the Family of Lazarus, may procure far more Torment than Profit: even if the Attachment be reciprocal, and well grounded, and equallie matcht, which often it is not.
"Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary"
Anne Manning