Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.
. . . sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas night is given(night and death and the rain are given;and given is how beautifully snow)