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No. 426.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1712.
Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,

Auri sacra fames?-VIRG. En. iii. 56.

O cursed hunger of pernicious gold!

What bands of faith can impious lucre hold.-DRYDEN.

care of

A VERY agreeable friend of mine, the other day, carrying me in his coach into the country to dinner, fell into discourse concerning the parents due to their children," and the "piety of children toward their parents." He was reflecting upon the succession of particular virtues and qualities there might be preserved from one generation to another, if these regards were reciprocally held in veneration; but as he never fails to mix an air of mirth and good-humor with his good sense and reasoning, he entered into the fol lowing relation :

and tender sighs of lovers; vows of constancy, | dagger all bloody, Anger in a robe of scarlet, and and as many complainings of perfidiousness: all Suspicion squinting with both eyes; but above which the winds wafted away as soon as they all, the most conspicuous was the battle of the had reached my hearing. After these, I saw a Lapitha and the Centaurs. I detested so hideous man advance in the full prime and vigor of his a shape, and turned my eyes upon Saturn, who age; his complexion was sanguine and ruddy, was stealing away behind him, with a scythe in his hair black, and fell down in beautiful ring- one hand and an hour-glass in the other, unoblets beneath his shoulders; a mantle of hair-co- served. Behind Necessity was Vesta, the goddess lored silk hung loosely upon him: he advanced of fire, with a lamp which was perpetually supwith a hasty step after the Spring, and sought plied with oil, and whose flame was eternal. She out the shade and cool fountains which played in cheered the rugged brow of Necessity, and warmed the garden. He was particularly well pleased her so far as almost to make her assume the feawhen a troop of Zephyrs fanned him with their tures and likeness of Choice. December, January, wings. He had two companions who walked on and February, passed on after the rest, all in furs; each side, that made him appear the most agree-there was little distinction to be made among able: the one was Aurora, with fingers of roses, them; and they were only more or less displeas and her feet dewy, attired in gray: the other was ing, as they discovered more or less haste toward Vesper, in a robe of azure beset with drops of the grateful return of Spring."-Z. gold, whose breath he caught while it passed over a bundle of honeysuckles and tuberoses, which he held in his hand. Pan and Ceres followed them with four reapers, who danced a morrice to the sound of oaten pipes and cymbals. Then came the attendant Months. June retained still some small likeness of Spring; but the other two seemed to step with a less vigorous tread, especially August, who seemed almost to faint, while for half the steps he took, the dog-star leveled his rays full at his head. They passed on, and made way for a person that seemed to bend a little under the weight of years; his beard and hair, which were full grown, were composed of an equal number of black and gray: he wore a robe which he had girt round him, of a yellowish cast, not unlike the color of fallen leaves, which he walked upon. I thought he hardly made amends for expelling the foregoing scene by the large quantity of fruits which he bore in his hands. Plenty walked by his side with a healthy, fresh countenance, pouring out from a horn all the various products of the year. Pomona followed with a glass of cider in her hand, with Bacchus in a chariot drawn by tigers, accompanied by a whole troop of satyrs, fawns, and sylvans. September, who came next, seemed in his looks to promise a new Spring, and wore the livery of those months. The succeeding mouth was all soiled with the juice of grapes, as if he had just come from the wine-press. November, though he was in this division, yet by the many stops he made, seemed rather inclined to the Winter, which followed close at his heels. He advanced in the shape of an old man in the extremity of age; the hair he had was so very white, it seemed a real snow; his eyes were red and piercing, and his beard hung with a great quantity of icicles; he was wrapped up in furs, but yet so pinched with excess of cold, that his limbs were all contracted, and his body bent to the ground, so that he could not have supported himself had it not been for Comus, the god of revels, and Necessity, the mother of Fate, who sustained him on each side. The shape and mantle of Comus was one of the things that most surprised me: as he advanced toward me, his countenance seemed the most desirable I had ever seen. On the fore part of his mantle was pictured joy, delight, and satisfaction, with a thousand emblems of merriment and jests, with faces looking two ways at once; but as he passed from me I was amazed at a shape so little correspondent to his face; his head was bald, and all the rest of his limbs appeared old and deformed. On the hinder part of his mantle was represented murder, with disheveled hair and a

The English are branded, perhaps unjustly, with being

addicted to suicide about this time of the year.

I will not be confident in what century, or under what reign it happened, that this want of mu tual confidence and right understanding between father and son was fatal to the family of the Valentines in Germany. Basilius Valentinus was a person who had arrived at the utmost perfection in the hermetic art, and initiated his son Alexandrius in the same mysteries; but, as you know, they are not to be attained but by the painful, the pious, the chaste, and pure of heart, Basilius did not open to him, because of his youth, and the deviations too natural to it, the greatest secrets of which he was master, as well knowing that the operation would fail in the hands of a man so liable to errors in life as Alexandrinus. But be lieving, from a certain indisposition of mind as well as body, his dissolution was drawing nigh, he called Alexandrinus to him, and as he lay on a couch, over-against which his son was seated, and prepared by sending out servants one after another, and admonition to examine that no one overheard them, he revealed the most important of his secrets with the solemnity and language of an adept. My son,' said he, many have been the watchings, long the lucubrations, constant the labors of thy father, not only to gain a great and plentiful estate to his posterity, but also to take care that he should have no posterity. Be not amazed, my child: I do not mean that thou shalt be taken from me, but that I will never leave thee, and consequently cannot be said to have posterity. Behold, my dearest Alexandrinus, the effect of what was propagated in nine months. We are not to contradict Nature, but to follow and to help her just as long as an infant is in the womb of its parent, so long are these medicines of revivification in preparing. Observe this small vial and this little gallipot-in this an unguent, in th:

other a liquor. In these, my child, are collected such powers, as shall revive the springs of life when they are yet but just ceased, and give new strength, new spirits, and, in a word, wholly restore all the organs and senses of the human body to as great a duration as it had before enjoyed from its birth to the day of the application of these my medicines. But, my beloved son, care must be taken to apply them within ten hours after the breath is out of the body, while yet the clay is warm with its late life, and yet capable of resuscitation. I find my frame grown crazy with perpetual toil and meditation; and I conjure you, as soon as I am dead, to anoint me with this unguent; and when you see me begin to move, pour into my lips this inestimable liquor, else the force of the ointment will be ineffectual. By this means you will give me life as I have you, and we will from that hour mutually lay aside the authority of having bestowed life on each other, live as brethren, and prepare new medicines against such another period of time as will demand another application of the same restoratives.' In a few days after these wonderful ingredients were delivered to Alexandrinus, Basilius departed this life. But such was the pious sorrow of the son at the loss of so excellent a father, and the first transports of grief had so wholly disabled him from all manner of business, that he never thought of the medicines till the time to which his father had limited their efcacy was expired. To tell the truth, Alexandrinus was a man of wit and pleasure, and considered his father had lived out his natural time; his life was long and uniform, suitable to the regularity of it; but that he himself, poor sinner, wanted a new life, to repent of a very bad one hitherto, and, in the examination of his heart, e solved to go on as he did with this natural being of his, but to repent very faithfully, and spend very piously the life to which he should be restored by application of these rarities, when tirag should come, to his own person.

"It has been observed, that Providence frequently punishes the self-love of men, who would do immoderately for their own offspring, with children very much below their characters and qualifications; insomuch that they only transmit their names to be borne by those who give daily proofs of the vanity of the labor and ambition of their progenitors.

"It happened thus in the family of Basilius; for Alexandrinus began to enjoy his ample fortune in all the extremities of household expense, furniture, and insolent equipage; and this he pursued till the day of his own departure began, as he grew sensible, to approach. As Basilius was punished with a son very unlike him, Alexandrinus was visited with one of his own disposition. It is natural that ill men should be suspicious; and Alexandrinus, beside the jealousy, had proofs of the vicious disposition of his son Renatus, for that was his name.

"Alexandrinus, as I observed, having very good reasons for thinking it unsafe to trust the real secret of his vial and gallipot to any man living, projected to make sure work, and hope for his success depending from the avarice, not the bounty of his benefactor.

"With this thought he called Renatus to his bed-side, and bespoke him in the most pathetic gesture and accent. As much, my son, as you have been addicted to vanity and pleasure, as I also have been before you, you nor I could escape

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the fame or the good effects of the profound knowledge of our progenitor, the renowned Basilius. His symbol is very well known to the philosophic world; and I shall never forget the venerable air of his countenance, when he let me into the pro found mysteries of the smaragdine table of Hermes. "It is true," said he, "and far removed from all color of deceit; that which is inferior is like that which is superior, by which are acquired and perfected all the miracles of a certain work. The father is the sun, the mother the moon, the wind is in the womb, the earth is the nurse of it, and mother of all perfection. All this must be received with modesty and wisdom." The chemical people carry, in all their jargon, a whimsical sort of piety which is ordinary with great lovers of money, and is no more but deceiving themselves, that their regularity and strictness of manners, for the ends of this world, has some affinity to the innocence of heart which must recommend them to the next. Renatus wondered to hear his father talk so like an adept, and with such a mixture of piety; while Alexandrinus, observing his attention fixed, proceeded. This vial, child, and this little earthen pot, will add to thy estate so much as to make thee the richest man in the German em pire. I am going to my long home, but shall not return to common dust. Then he resumed a countenance of alacrity, and told him, that if within an hour after his death he anointed his whole body, and poured down his throat that liquor which he had from old Basilius, the corpse would be converted into pure gold. I will not pretend to express to you the unfeigned tenderness that passed between these two extraordinary persons; but if the father recommended the care of his remains with vehemence and affection, the son was not behindhand in professing that he would not cut the least bit off him, but upon the utmost extremity, or to provide for his younger brothers and sisters. Well, Alexandrinus died, and the heir of his body (as our term is) could not forbear, in the wantonness of his heart, to measure the length and breadth of his beloved father, and cast up the ensuing value of him before he proceeded to operation. When he knew the immense reward of his pains, he began the work: but lo! when he had anointed the corpse all over, and began to apply the liquor, the body stirred, and Renatus, in a fright, broke the vial.”—T.

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No. 427.] THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1712. Quantum a rerum turpitudine abes, tantum te a verborum libertate sejungas.—ÏULL.

We should be as careful of our words as our actions; and as far from speaking as from doing ill.

Ir is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self, and an impatience of seeing it in another. Else why should virtue provoke? Why should beauty displease in such a degree, that a man given to scandal never lets the mention of either pass by him, without offering something to the diminution of it? A lady, the other day, at a visit, being attacked somewhat rudely by one whose own character has been very roughly treated, answered a great deal of heat and intemperance very calmly, "Good madam, spare me, who am none of your match: I speak ill of nobody, and it is a new thing to me to be ill spoken of." Little minds think fame consists in the num. ber of votes they have on their side among the

multitude, whereas it is really the inseparable follower of good and worthy actions. Fame is as natural a follower of merit, as a shadow is of a body. It is true, when crowds press upon you, this shadow cannot be seen; but when they separate from around you, it will again appear. The lazy, the idle, and the froward, are the persons who are most pleased with the little tales which pass about the town to the disadvantage of the rest of the world. Were it not for the pleasure of speaking ill, there are numbers of people who are too lazy to go out of their own houses, and too illnatured to open their lips in conversation. It was not a little diverting, the other day, to observe a lady reading a post-letter, and at these words, "After all her airs, he has heard some story or other, and the match is broke off;" give orders in the midst of her reading, "Put to the horses." That a young woman of merit has missed an advantageous settlement was news not to be delayed, lest somebody else should have given her malicious acquaintance that satisfaction before her. The unwillingness to receive good tidings is a quality as inseparable from a scandal-bearer, as the readiness to divulge bad. But, alas! how wretchedly low and contemptible is that state of mind, that cannot be pleased but by what is the subject of lamentation. This temper has ever been, in the highest degree, odious to gallant spirits. The Persian soldier, who was heard reviling Alexander the Great, was well admonished by his officer, "Sir, you are paid to fight against Alexander, and

not to rail at him."

Cicero, in one of his pleadings, defending his client from general scandal, says very handsomely, and with much reason, “There are many who have particular engagements to the prosecutor; there are many who are known to have ill-will to him for whom I appear; there are many who are naturally addicted to defamation, and envious of any good to any man who may have contributed to spread reports of this kind: for nothing is so swift as scandal, nothing is more easily sent abroad, nothing received with more welcome, nothing diffuses itself so universally. I shall not desire that if any report to our disadvantage has any ground for it, you would overlook or extenuate it but if there be anything advanced, without a person who can say whence he had it, or which is attested by one who forgot who told him of it, or who had it from one of so little consideration that he did not then think it worth his notice, all such testimonies as these, I know, you will think too slight to have any credit against the innocence and honor of your fellow-citizens." When an ill report is traced, it very often vanishes among such as the orator has here recited. And how despicable a creature must that be who is in pain for what passes among so frivolous a people! There is a town in Warwickshire, of good note, and formerly pretty famous for much animosity and dissension, the chief families of which have now turned all their whispers, backbitings, envies, and private malices, into mirth and entertainment, by means of a peevish old gentlewoman, known by the title of the Lady Bluemantle. This heroine had, for many years together, outdone the whole sisterhood of gossips in invention, quick utterance, and unprovoked malice. This good body is of a lasting constitution, though extremely decayed in her eyes, and decrepid in her feet. The two circumstances of being always at home from her lameness, and very attentive from her blindness, make her lodgings the receptacle of all that passes in town, good or bad; but for the latter she seems to have the better memory. There is another thing to be noted of her, which is, that as it

is usual with old people, she has a livelier memory of things which passed when she was very young than of late years. Add to all this, that she does not only not love anybody, but she hates everybody. The statue in Rome* does not serve to vent malice half so well as this old lady does to disappoint it. She does not know the author of anything that is told her, but can readily repeat the matter itself; therefore, though she exposes all the whole town, she offends no one in it. She is so exquisitely restless and peevish, that she quarrels with all about her, and sometimes in a freak will instantly change her habitation. To indulge this humor, she is led about the grounds belonging to the same house she is in; and the persons to whom she is to remove, being in the plot, are ready to receive her at her own chamber again. At stated times the gentlewoman at whose house she supposes she is at the time, is sent for to quarrel with, according to her common custom. When they have a mind to drive the jest, she is immediately urged to that degree, that she will board in a family with which she has never yet been; and away she will go this instant, and tell them all that the rest have been saying of them. By this means, she has been an inhabitant of every house in the place, without stirring from the same habitation: and the many stories which everybody furnishes her with, to favor that deceit, make her the general intelligencer of the town of all that can be said by one woman against another. Thus groundless stories die away, and sometimes truths are smothered under the general word, when they have a mind to discountenance a thing, "Oh, this is in my Lady Bluemantle's Memoirs."

Whoever receives impressions to the disadvan tage of others, without examination, is to be had in no other credit for intelligence than this good Lady Bluemantle, who is subjected to have her ears imposed upon for want of other helps to better information. Add to this, that other scandalbearers suspend the use of these faculties which she has lost, rather than apply them to do jus tice to their neighbors: and I think, for the service of my fair readers, to acquaint them, that there is a voluntary Lady Bluemantle at every visit in town.-T.

No. 428.] FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1712.
Occupet extremum scabies.-HOR. Ars. Poet. v. 417.
The devil take the hindmost.-ENGLISH PROVERB.

Ir is an impertinent and an unreasonable fault in conversation, for one man to take up all the dis course. It may possibly be objected to me myself, that I am guilty in this kind, in entertaining the town every day, and not giving so many able persons, who have it more in their power, and as much in their inclination, an opportunity to oblige mankind with their thoughts. "Beside," said one whom I overheard the other day, "why must this paper turn altogether upon topics of learning and morality? Why should it pretend only to wit, humor, or the like-things which are useful only to amuse men of literature and superior education? I would have it consist also of all things which may be necessary or useful to any part society; and the mechanic arts should have their place as well as the liberal. The ways of gail, husbandry, and thrift, will serve a greater number of people, than discourses upon what was well said or done by such a philosopher, hero, general,

A statue of Pasquin in that city, on which sarcastic re marks were pasted, and thence called Pasquinades,

It is objected by readers of history, that the battles in those narrations are scarce ever to be understood. This misfortune is to be ascribed to the ignorance of historians in the methods of drawing up, changing the forms of a battalia, and the enemy retreating from, as well as approaching to, the charge. But in the discourses from the correspondents whom I now invite, the danger will be of another kind; and it is necessary to caution them only against using terms of art, and describing things that are familiar to them in words that are unknown to their readers. I promise myself a great harvest of new circumstances, persons, and things, from this proposal; and a world which many think they are well acquainted with, discovered as wholly new. This sort of intelligence will give a lively image of the chain and mutual dependence of human society, take off impertinent prejudices, enlarge the minds of those whose views are confined to their own circumstances; and, in short, if the knowing in several arts, professions, and trades, will exert themselves, it cannot but produce a new field of diversion and instruc tion, more agreeable than has yet appeared.-T.

No. 429.] SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1712.
-Populumque falsis dedocet uti
Hon. 2 Od. ii. 19.

Vocibus-
From cheats of words the crowd she brings
To real estimates of things.-CREECH.
MR. SPECTATOR,

or poet."-I no sooner heard this critic talk of my the worth and importance of his character: it works, but I minuted what he had said; and from might be visible, from what he could say, that no that instant resolved to enlarge the plan of my soldier entering a breach adventures more for speculations, by giving notice to all persous of all honor, than the trader does for wealth to his orders, and each sex, that if they are pleased to country. In both cases, the adventurers have send me discourses, with their names and places their own advantage; but I know no cases wherein of abode to them, so that I can be satisfied the everybody else is a sharer in the success. writings are authentic, such their labors shall be faithfully inserted in this paper. It will be of much more consequence to a youth, in his apprenticeship, to know by what rules and arts such a one became sheriff of London, than to see the sign of one of his own quality with a lion's heart in each hand. The world, indeed, is enchanted with romantic and improbable achievements, when the plain path to respective greatness and success, in the way of life a man is in, is wholly overlooked. Is it possible that a young man at present could pass his time better than in reading the history of stocks, and knowing by what secret springs they have such sudden ascents and falls in the same day? Could he be better conducted in his way to wealth, which is the great article of life, than in a treatise dated from 'Change-alley by an able proficient there? Nothing certainly can be more useful, than to be well instructed in his hopes and fears; to be diffident when others exult; and with a secret joy buy when others think it their interest to sell. I invite all persons, who have anything to say for the profitable information of the public, to take their turns in my paper: they are welcome, from the late noble inventor of the longitude, to the humble author of strops for razors. If to carry ships in safety, to give help to people tossed in a troubled sea, without knowing to what shore they bear, what rocks to avoid, or what coast to pray for in their extremity, be a worthy labor, and an invention that deserves a statue; at the same time, he who has found means to let the instrument, which is to make your visage less horrid and your" person more snug, easy in the operation, is worthy of some kind of good reception. If things of high moment meet with renown, those of little consideration, since of any consideration, are not to be despised. In order that no merit may lie hid, and no art unimproved, I repeat it, that I call artificers, as well as philosophers, to my assistance in the public service. It would be of great use if we had an exact history of the successes of every great shop within the city-walls, what tracts of land have been purchased by a constant attendance within a walk of thirty feet. If it could also be noted in the equipage of those who are ascended from the successful trade of their ancestors into figure and equipage, such accounts would quicken industry in the pursuit of such acquisitions, and discountenance luxury in the enjoyment of them. To diversify these kinds of informations, the industry of the female world is not to be unobserved. She to whose household virtues it is owing, that men do honor to her husband, should be recorded with veneration; she who has wasted his labors, with infamy. When we are come into domestic life in this manner, to awaken caution aud attendance to the main point, it would not be amiss to give now and then a touch of tragedy, and describe that most dreadful of all human conditions, the case of bankruptcy: how plenty, credit, cheerfulness, full hopes, and easy possessions, are in an instant turned into penury, faint aspects, diffidence, sorrow, and misery; how the man, who with an open hand the day before could minister to the extremities of others, is shunned to-day by the friend of his bosom. It would be useful to show how just this is on the negligent, how lamentable on the industrious. A paper written by a merchant might give this island a true sense of

"Since I gave an account of an agreeable set of I have received advices from thence, that the incompany which were gone down into the country, stitution of an infirmary for those who should be out of humor has had very good effects. My letthree persons, who had the good sense to retire ters mention particular circumstances of two or of their own accord, and notified that they were withdrawn, with the reasons of it to the company, in their respective memorials.

'The Memorial of Mrs. Mary Dainty, Spinster.

'Humbly Showeth,

'That conscious of her own want of merit, accompanied with a vanity of being admired, she had gone into exile of her own accord.

She is sensible that a vain person is the most insufferable creature living in a well-bred assembly.

That she desired, before she appeared in public again, she might have assurances, that though she might be thought handsome, there might not more address or compliment be paid to her than to the rest of the company.

That she conceived it a kind of superiority, that one person should take upon him to commend another.

Lastly, that she went into the infirmary, to avoid a particular person, who took upon him to profess an admiration of her.

She therefore prayed, that to applaud out of due place might be declared an offense, and punished in the same manner with detraction, in that the latter did but report persons defective, and the former made them so.

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All which is submitted,' etc.

"There appeared a delicacy and sincerity in this memorial very uncommon, but my friend informs me, that the allegations of it were groundless, insomuch that this declaration of an aversion to being praised, was understood to be no other than a secret trap to purchase it, for which reason it lies still on the table unanswered.

The humble Memorial of the Lady Lydia Loller, 'Showeth,

That this custom of his makes him, by his own confession, fit only for the infirmary, and therefore he has not waited for being sentenced to it.

That he is conscious there is nothing more improper than such a complaint in good company, in that they must pity, whether they think the lamenter ill or not; and that the complainant must make a silly figure, whether he is pitied or not.

'Your petitioner humbly prays, that he may have time to know how he does, and he will make

That the Lady Lydia is a woman of quality; his appearance.' married to a private gentleman.

That she finds herself neither well nor ill. " That her husband is a clown.

That Lady Lydia cannot see company. That she desires the infirmary may be her apartment during her stay in the country.

That they would please to make merry with their equals.

"The valetudinarian was likewise easily excused; and this society, being resolved not only to make it their business to pass their time agreeab'y habits in themselves as may be of use in their for the present season, but also to commence such future conduct in general, are very ready to give into a fancied or real incapacity to join with their measures, in order to have no humorist, proud man, impertinent or sufficient fellow, break in upon their happiness. Great evils seldom happen to disturb company; but indulgence in particularities of humor is the seed of making half our The humble Memorial of Thomas Sudden, Esq. of time hang in suspense, or waste away under real the Inner Temple.

That Mr. Loller might stay with them if he thought fit.'

"It was immediately resolved, that Lady Lydia

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That he stayed behind in Westminster-hall, when the late shake of the roof happened, only

because a counsel of the other side asserted it was coming down.

That he cannot for his life consent to anything.

That he stays in the infirmary to forget himself. That as soon as he has forgot himself he will wait on the company.'

"His indisposition was allowed to be sufficient to require a cessation from company.

The Memorial of Frank Jolly. 'Showeth,

That he hath put himself into the infirmary, in regard he is sensible of a certain rustic mirth which renders him unfit for polite conversation.

That he intends to prepare himself, by abstinence and thin diet, to be one of the company.

That at present he comes into a room as if he were an express from abroad.

That he has chosen an apartment with a matted antechamber, to practice motion without being heard.

That he bows, talks, drinks, eats, and helps himself before a glass, to learn to act with mode. ration.

That by reason of his luxuriant health he is oppressive to persons of composed behavior.

That he is endeavoring to forget the word pshaw, pshaw."

That he is also weaning himself from his cane. That when he has learned to live without his said cane, he will wait on the company,' etc.

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Among other things, it is carefully provided, that there may not be disagreeable familiarities, no one is to appear in the public rooms undressed, or enter abruptly into each other's apartment without intimation. Every one has hitherto been so careful in his behavior, that there has but one offender, in ten days' time, been sent into his cards at whist. the infirmary, and that was for throwing away

"He has offered his submission in the following terms:

The humble Petition of Jeoffrey Hotspur, Esq., Showeth,

Though the petitioner swore, stamped, and threw down his cards, he has all imaginable respect for the ladies, and the whole company.

That he humbly desires it may be considered, in the case of gaming, there are many motives which provoke to disorder.

That the desire of gain, and the desire of victory are both thwarted in losing.

That all conversations in the world, have indulged human infirmity in this case.

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"As you are Spectator-general, you may with authority censure whatever looks ill, and is offensive to the sight; the worst nuisance of this kind, methinks, is the scandalous appearance of poor in all parts of this wealthy city. Such miserable objects affect the compassionate beholder with dismal ideas, discompose the cheerfulness of his mind, and deprive him of the pleasure that he might otherwise take in surveying the grandeur of our metropolis. Who can, without remorse, see a disabled sailor, the purveyor of our luxury

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