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    are sure they are of the right sort ; and this right sort does not include all who will answer readil y r yes ' to your question of 4 who will go V Be cautious that the desire to increase your number does not coax you into an admission of doubtful ones , or the pleasure of all must be sacrificed to that one ' s inanity , dumbness , and deadness of soul . For my own single part , or whim , I

    should select children freely , as fellows in the affair , because if they feK an inclination to go mad with enjoyment , why mad they would show themselves , and shout out of all proper behaving , ' and kick up their heels most unconventionally ; all our pleasures are doubled by the sympathy with others ; so let us have no r propriety and decorum' ( those decoctions of stupidity and cunning ) here . We will have those who can feel the beauties of the

    place , and who , so feeling , will look , speak , and do , all they can of all they feel—though it be to burst into tears of rapturous hysteria—to scream with delight , or to remain mute . A majority of the gentler sex is desirable . If equally paired you may be compelled to tug and haul in couples like greyhounds . For the choice : —this is the nice point—the experimenium crucis . The right sort may be found from all ages , from six to sixty : ( the fearful of rheumatics will not do : ) but we have an

    instinctive aptness to the impression that personal prettineas , or , if you insist on it , beauty , is the store-house of all the lovelier qualities of mind and heart ; and they are so when rightly schooled : but in the schooling lives and grows the mischief .

    Generally , too generally—and this as much from the contemptible foolery of the men , as from the narrowing , conventional absurdity of their female instructors , young ladies are taught into a mechanism of manner— ' springes to catch woodcocks '—to conceal , suppress , crush all the natural and beautiful gushings of the purest and most beautiful emotions , and to affect those externals

    which are as much like the graces and beauties of truth and delicacy as a toad-stool is like a violet or a primrose—a smile from one of which toad-stools would curdle a whole sea of syllabub : one of such , in this our projected party , would look Birkland into a huge birch rod . Eschew all who were ever seen out of a dressing-room with hair en papillotte : and all who would set forward on this jaunt with hair and head tortured into the graces of a chizzled wig : there is no more poetry in such heads than in a dish of tripe : come , all who do come , with tresses that will freely

    unloose themselves from their braids ; so that locks and ringlets may swing in companionship and sympathy with the tens of thousands of tassels on the heads and brows of these Lady Birches . How glorious looks a young creature as she springs , light as an antelope , over the moss and through the heather , and darts in and out among the intertwining sprays , in all the joyaunce of a heart that makes buoyant and elastic every limb and sinew ; with tresses sportively floating , waving , and fluttering in

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/48/