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tresses has tranquilly displaced the old bdrriers , which it shook the poor fashionable world to the soul to see touched ; and by a curious compromise with morality , which always secretly existed in that quarter , and
betrayed its real want of dignity , the riches and high title of the great banker ' s widow have strengthened rather than diminished the effect of unequivocal virtue itself , and left the stage in possession of the most unbounded rights of expectation .
When an actress of importance now marries , the surprise of the public is , that she puts up with a private gentleman ! Wealth is power , and power is every thing with the gratuitously meritorious . It is not indeed
to be despised by any body , inasmuch as it is substantial and effective ; and hence the delusion of those who , because they are in possession of the remains of it , fancy they inherit it for ever , undiminished by the encroachments of the power
derived from , that very knowledge which , after all , is the only basis of their own , and which is sliding from under their proud and careless feet . Some real superiority , was it only in bodily strength or cunning , was the first exaltation of men above
their fellows . The advantages derived from it gradually secured them those of the
supe-• By a singular forgetfulness we have , omitted one name , after all , in our list , well known in the annals of beauty and a trying life .
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riority of knowledge ; and a feeling has been increasing every day of later years , that knowledge and accomplishments , and the moral graces
that attend them , now make the only real difference between the pretensions of decent people . " The shopkeepers of next age / ' says Horace Walpole , in a sneer which now recoils on himself , " will be
mightily well born . " They are better than that;—they are mightily well educated ;—that is to say , their children are brought up to be as
accomplished and well behaved , to all lasting purpose , as those of their quondam superiors ; and hence a change in society , which if it has not yet completed the justice to be done in like manner
to all classes ( far , God knows , from it !) has at any rate put an end , for ever , to the fine marriageable distinctions between a gentlewoman off the stage , whose attractions lie in the
tombs of her ancestors , and a gentlewoman on it who delights the eyes and understandings of living thousands . The fair fames of the Derbys and
Cravens , and the novels of Gore and Blessington , have avenged the vulgar insults offered the sisters of the stage by the demireps of the days of Walpole and Montague . *
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VtS Ihichess of St Aibans ; and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/32/
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