Aut similet jucunda et idonea vitæ.-Hor. de Art. Post. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR H. D. SYMONDS, T. HURST, J. WALKER, J. SCATCHERD, A. AND J. BLACK 1801. THE SPECTATOR. No. 30. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1711. Si, MIMNERMus uti censet, sine amore jocisque KOR. EP. vi. 69. "If nothing, as MIмNERMus strives to prove, ON LOVE. CREECH. ONE common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular. The passion of Love is the most general concern among men; and I am glad to hear by my last advices from Oxford that there are a set of s hers in that university, who have erected themselves into a society in honour of that tender passion. These gentlemen are of that sort of inamoratos, who are not so very much lost to com VOL. 11. mon |