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4*2 Blue"Stocking Revels;
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Canto Ii.—The Presentations And Bali,.
Then how much good reading *! what fit flowing * words ! What enjoyment , whether midst houses or herds ! 'Twas the thinking of men with the lightness of birds ! Never _prais'd be prose-love in a style so poetic . — Then he _kiss'd Mrs Gillies by right sympathetic , And somebody smiling , and looking askance , He said , " Honisoit , my friend , qui maly pense ;
What in gods is aright and confirms a good fame , Were in you a presumption . The same ' s not the same /' And with this profound speech , and a bow to the dame ( Whom he thank'd for 6 Cleone , ' and ' Gentile and Jew , And for other things far more didactic and blue , But advis'd , for the future , to preach reformation With all of her sweets , and no exacerbation . ) He rais''d Mrs Hall from her rev '' rence _orofound . He raisd Mrs Hall from her revrence profound ,
Saying , i € Nonsense , my dear ; clasp me lustily round : — For the gods love the pleasure you take , ' tis so hearty , In all sorts of characters , careless of party , The more so remembering your high Tory breeding ; And then mv * old _ooets' ' _e _* ive grace to vour _reading : And then my * old poetsgive grace to your reading ;
And sweet is your lass , who so prettily fell In love with the worthy not shap'd very well . But why ( said he , staring ) should you , who can thus Universalize , make now and then such a fuss
About * holy' and ' pure / meaning some few grave people , As though the blithe bells were not good as the steeple , Or Jove ' s honest world had no morals or piety , Save where they _puff'd themselves into nimiely ? Haven ' t you told us , that virtues tight-laced Endanger , you rogue you , the general waist ?"
_Blush'd dear Mrs Hall ; and declared she'd consider The question most heartily , since the god bid her . ( 11 ) Lately Mrs Leman _Grimstone . ( 12 ) See the character of Barbara Iverk in the " Buccaneer . " ( 13 ) "Nimiety—the state of being too much . " Johnson . ( Explained " for the benefit of the country gentlemen . " )
( 14 ) " Thus , shut up in one of the most _gloomy hotels in Paris , —conveyed in a close carriage once or twice a week to the _Bois de Boulogne , or the gardens of Versailles , —fearing to express delight , lest she should be reproved for levity , —or desire for any thing , lest it should be the very thing she would not be permitted to possess , —the proud , warm , frank-hearted Jewess became gradually metamorphosed into the cunning , passionate , deceptive intriguante , only waiting for an opportunity to
deceive her guardians , and obtain that which , so strictly forbidden , she concluded must be the greatest possible enjoyment—freedom of word and action . Alas ! if we may use a homely phrase , many are the victims to strait-lacing , both of stays and conscience . " Buccaneer , Vol . II . p . 225 . Nothing can be more sensible than this ; but surely the spirit of it is at variance with that of many late observations in this lady ' s writings , where she pushes the
4*2 Blue"Stocking Revels;
4 * 2 Blue"Stocking Revels ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/40/
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