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Carnaby The First.
AA ere of self-satisfied astonishment . The talk , hoAvever , proceeded Avith some certain deA'elopment and regularity , though it was all sententious and profound ( I may add profitable ) , and although the remarks had very little , or very distant , relation to each other . The speakers rarely troubled themselves to answer to each other's ideasbut harangued in some
, such independent fashion as the following : — " The attempt , " began Perkin Peterkin , " to extract a gloAv out of the heart of a coquette , is about as wise as the thinking to warm oneself at the flame of a candle . " "Women , " remarked Giles Scroggins , "form their own ideas of a heroand then fall in love Avith him . It is not because you
, approach the ideal , but because you are not the furthest off it , that you have at all a place in her mind . " "True , " rejoined Perkin Peterkin . " Women are A ' ariable ; men are so , also . The torch of love never yet did burn so strong , that it did not sputter into smoke . Love , indeed , is a grand fireAVork that has many rounds to make—many zi to
gzags describe . Its finest fires spin in silence ; but the squibs , crackers , and reports—all the hurry , whirl , and noise , are a hasty ancl vehement display—that , in expressing little else , hint much paper . After all the fizzing , flaming , and scattering , Avhat so
very frequently remains but the mere—stick ?" "A beautiful woman , " murmured Perkin Peterkin , abstractedly , " is the last in the world to be pleased with the praises of her beauty . Imply your admiration , but do not speak it , for fear she see herself reflected ugly in your representation . Be assured that your warmest eloquence must fall short of that perfection
which she deems already but too manifest . Convinced that your brightest colours must fail before that picture of herself Avhich she long ago painted , you Avill rather pique her interest by doubting her poAver , than waste your breath , ancl weary her , in telling her that Avhich she knows already . If you are a lover , and Avish to retain yourself in , as it were , the value of a
sovereign , ancl not as a five-shilling piece , in the estimation of your mistress , shoAV yourself seldom to her . Be you Phoebus himself , you will shine but as a dull candle in comparison with your image . When in sight you are beheld as Avhat you areperhaps not much . When absent , you are at the safest in beingcalculated as Avhat you are not . The present rapidlfall in
y their value with every one—clown , as it Avere , a descending table of coins , as from gold to copper—and Ave may consider ourselves fortunate if there be not felt a very speedy disposition to change us away . " "Many loA'es , friend ( like many roses ) , embellish , " said Giles
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Carnaby The First.
AA ere of self-satisfied astonishment . The talk , hoAvever , proceeded Avith some certain deA'elopment and regularity , though it was all sententious and profound ( I may add profitable ) , and although the remarks had very little , or very distant , relation to each other . The speakers rarely troubled themselves to answer to each other's ideasbut harangued in some
, such independent fashion as the following : — " The attempt , " began Perkin Peterkin , " to extract a gloAv out of the heart of a coquette , is about as wise as the thinking to warm oneself at the flame of a candle . " "Women , " remarked Giles Scroggins , "form their own ideas of a heroand then fall in love Avith him . It is not because you
, approach the ideal , but because you are not the furthest off it , that you have at all a place in her mind . " "True , " rejoined Perkin Peterkin . " Women are A ' ariable ; men are so , also . The torch of love never yet did burn so strong , that it did not sputter into smoke . Love , indeed , is a grand fireAVork that has many rounds to make—many zi to
gzags describe . Its finest fires spin in silence ; but the squibs , crackers , and reports—all the hurry , whirl , and noise , are a hasty ancl vehement display—that , in expressing little else , hint much paper . After all the fizzing , flaming , and scattering , Avhat so
very frequently remains but the mere—stick ?" "A beautiful woman , " murmured Perkin Peterkin , abstractedly , " is the last in the world to be pleased with the praises of her beauty . Imply your admiration , but do not speak it , for fear she see herself reflected ugly in your representation . Be assured that your warmest eloquence must fall short of that perfection
which she deems already but too manifest . Convinced that your brightest colours must fail before that picture of herself Avhich she long ago painted , you Avill rather pique her interest by doubting her poAver , than waste your breath , ancl weary her , in telling her that Avhich she knows already . If you are a lover , and Avish to retain yourself in , as it were , the value of a
sovereign , ancl not as a five-shilling piece , in the estimation of your mistress , shoAV yourself seldom to her . Be you Phoebus himself , you will shine but as a dull candle in comparison with your image . When in sight you are beheld as Avhat you areperhaps not much . When absent , you are at the safest in beingcalculated as Avhat you are not . The present rapidlfall in
y their value with every one—clown , as it Avere , a descending table of coins , as from gold to copper—and Ave may consider ourselves fortunate if there be not felt a very speedy disposition to change us away . " "Many loA'es , friend ( like many roses ) , embellish , " said Giles