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By Carolina Frederick Ren u clerk , and Henrietta Mary Beauclerk . First Series . Dedicated to Her Grace the Duchess of St . Albau ' s , by her aftertiontite cousins . 1 vol . Smith and Elder , 1836 . fct Oh reign of Trash ! Oh gifted court lines *! ' *
It has long been manifest , and pretty generally acknowledged , that the reign of Trash lias arrived as near to the height of fame and popular notice as it can ever attain in a country posrsessing some regard for intellectuality . The constant resistance offered by those who think that life contains deeper principles than such as are evolved in a ball-room or fancy fair ( using the term in its widest sense ) prevents its full growth and vulgar despotism . Fashion has always " flourished ; " the gaudy tulip has always reared its offensive head from the gross compost ;
but the limits of its influence were never so certainly juarked as at the present day . For the first time , the world of mind and morals has been able to say to ignorance and folly , ' , Thu& far hast thou gone , but tliou shalt go no further / In the
Court they readied a wonderful height , not unmixed with some small degree of dishonesty , during the reign of George IV ~ , but they could get no further ; in our theatres the reign of ignorance , folly , and chicanery , may be placed at a nourishing height during the management of Laporte ;—it has got beyond
him under the pertinacious grossness of Messrs , 13 unn and Osbaldistone ; but it will e ; o no further ; and in literature * . the reign of Trash may be said to have reached " the length of its tether ' in the " fashionable novels , " from the pcus of our
aristocracy . They write exclusively about themselves , and we need say no more . These low-minded productions are not , however , without their value to the progress of society . They all aid , more or less , to show the kind of power which is behind , before , around , and underneath , the throne . They are the ^ evelations of aristocratic intellect , wit , morality , manners , and accomplishments , and will serve as astounding historical records for future times , of the intellect and -principles of that class which considers itself
born to legislate for a great nation , and in which preposterous assumption the said nation has coincided for so long a period with n fund of patience so trul y marvellous . But one very droll impertinence about these low-life fashionable novels , is that they all affect to sati / rize the utter levity , folly , conventional pride , and vicious heart lessiiess of the class to which they and their writers belong . The authors say the moat spiteful things about their intimate friends , and ' particular * acnuaiut-
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Tales cjf Fashion and Reality * 40 l
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TALES OF FASHION AND REALITT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/9/
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