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mind not to be moved by the satyre and bickerings of an insidious enemy. In adversity he disdains an action that would tarnish his honor, or taint the name that is to live in memory after him. When fortune frowns, like a rock that lifts its head above the level of the sea and remains firm and unshaken, regardless of the foaming billows and ocean's roar-he stands amid a bustling world unmindful of envy's murmur and her bitter stings, supported by a conscious virtue and rectitude of conduct which affords a balm and consolation to his bosom, superior to all the joys that the world can give.

The man under pecuniary embarrassments, whose bosom is fraught with this noble principle,

will ever be found honorable and just till the last farthing of his resources are exhausted; and, superior to every scheme of chicanery, will prefer rather to submit to abject servitude than be found guilty of even an endeavour to deceive or defraud the person to whom he is under the slightest moral obligationg.

Emulation is like a spring upon which are hung all the noblest sentiments of the soul; superior to gain and the minor considerations of life, she wakens the man of genius to usher forth his secret reflections to the views of mankind, for their entertainment and amusement; she fires their bosoms, rouses their passions, kindles those

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There now lives at Woodbury, Litchfield county, in the state of Connecticut, an old gentleman named JOSIAH WALKER, in the ninety-ninth year of his age. His natural faculties have ever been remarkably good, and he can scarcely perceive any of them impaired, except his eye-sight, which within a very few has a little years decayed, tho' not so much but that he can see to peruse a newspaper with tolerable facility without the assistance of glasses..

He enjoys good health; he says he cannot recollect of experiencing a sick hour since he arrived at the age of twenty. He always walks on foot in preference to riding on horseback or in a carriage, and usually walks with as much sprightliness and uprightness as most men in the meridian of life.

He is a man of a mild temper

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clouded the minds of that people, and before they had shaken off the feudal yoke of tyranny.

It being a curiosity (for so I consider it) when compared with the wisdom and learning of later times, as well as on account of the peculiar forfeiture affixed as a penalty to the crime, I have given it a literal translation, for the amusement of those of your readers, that may be classed among the curious.

"If any person shall slay or by stealth carry away the cat that watched the king's household or barn, the Cat shall be suspended by the end of her tail, her nose touching the floor, and wheat grain shall be poured round her on the floor until she is covered with the wheat to the top of her tail."

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For I suppose that is your name, as every one calls you by it, you see I write a very bad hand, and I am, therefore, rather shy, in setting my fist to paper; indeed, until now, I have only been used to make my mark. However, I have ventured. to set to; yet you will very soon find me give in, for I am not a long-winded writer. I have no taste for long epistles, although some of your correspondents seem to be gluttone in that way, by which

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Sweet Mr. Mirror,

As I hear you are a dear bewitching man, and extremely partial to the ladies, it will be unnecessary, I suppose, to make an apology for troubling you with a letter on MATRIMONY, a subject which I can assure you has occupřed my thoughts ever since my arriva! in the East-I declare I would rather work a dozen Hooka

carpets for my Grand Papa, than remain another season in this teazing, solitary, fidgety state of celibacy;-not that I think I'm in love

From this restless and unsatisfactory solitude, my heart has long panted to escape; and settle its playful egaremens on some object worthy a "Virgin's Care," but alas! Mr. Mirror, retirement and some other causes, which I am not at liberty to mention, put it entirely out of my power to make that choice, which imagination is constantly pourtraying for my dearly beloved and long sighed-for companion;-I am therefore reluctantly compelled to state publicly my wishes and expectations, and entreat your good offices in recommending my pretensions,

Dear me, I blush at the idea; „no, it is rather a soft agreeable languor; a melting warmth of the heart ;-a delicious indescrib- || able penchant for I protest, Mr. Mirror, I know not what it is; but I believe after all it must be love, as Alexander Brown, the poet, says,

"Something there is moves me to love; and I

"Do know I love but know not how

nor WHY."

The man that I wish to please, must himself possess the power of pleasing his person and manners must be unexceptionable-no French legerete, nor Italian morbidezza;-no Irish Quinbus Flustrin, nor little Welch Nardaç;—no raw-boned Caledonian, nor drowsy beef-eating John Bull, who neglects his tender spouse,

66 Making night hideous." None of these, Dear Mr. Mirror, need reply to this letter ;- -the sweet youth to whom I offer the unqualified participation of my friendship, must possess a happy and agreeable melange of the better part of those characters, that is vivacity without levity, sincerity without bluntness, spirit without captiousness, and ease without indifference.

"If there's a man in heart and tongue sincere,

To virtue faithful, and in judgment clear,

Gay without folly, learn'd without the

show,

Unlike the sloven, more unlike the beau,

Amidst whose manly features are ex press'd,

The soft emotions of the tender breast, To him my freedom gladly I'd resign, His joys, his sorrows, only should be mine."

After requiring so much, Mr. Mirror, it may be asked what peculiar charms and accomplishments I myself possess, to justify -so great a demand:-to this, my dear sir, modesty forbids me to say much, though vanity prompts me to say a great deal. This much, however, I think myself authorized to declare, that I am neither a chiaro-oscuro, nor complete fithanette; nor peevish old maid, nor rompish over-grown miss: I have a pleasing figure," belle, et dans toute la fleur de la jeunesse"; a sprightly imagination; a turn for the fine arts, particularly music and drawing-play on several instruments; am myself in sweet tune, and only require a pleasing partner to produce what the artists term a harmony of discords, or, figurative COUNTER-POINT, which is acknowledged to produce the most affecting, as well as the most transporting melody,

I remain,

My Dear Mr.Mirror,

Your sincere admirer,

LOUISA MATILDA WILHEL

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At the last town-meeting in Boston, for the choice of members of the general court, much pleasantry was excited by a wag coming up to the poll, dragging a ticket of several feet in length after him, composed of several sheets of páper tacked together,on which were written the names of forty-two candidates, the number voted by the town to be elected, in large text, which he gravely presented to the presiding officer as his ballot. The ticket, being perfectly legal, was of course accepted.

Anecdote of George Whitfield, the

founder of Methodism.

An intimate friend of the celebrated Hume, asked him what he thought of Mr. Whitfield's preaching; for he had listened to the latter part of one of his sermons at Edinburgh :-" He is, sir," said Mr. Hume," the most ingenious preacher I ever heard: it is worth while to go twenty miles to hear him." He then repeated a passage towards the close of the discourse which he had heard an "After a solemn pause, he thus addressed his numerous audience:

The attendant angel is just about

to leave the threshold, and ascend to Heaven. And shall he ascend, and not bear with him the news of one sinner, among all this multitude, reclaimed from the error of his ways ?" To give the greater effect to this exclamation, he stamped with his foot, lifted up his hands and eyes to Heaven, and with gushing tears, cried aloud,"

Stop Gabriel! stop Gabriel! stop ere you enter the sacred portals, and yet carry with you the news of one sinner converted unto God.'"He then, in the most simple, but energetic language, described what he called a Saviour's dying love to sinful man; so that almost the whole assembly melted into tears. -This address was accompanied with such animated, yet natural action, that it surpassed any thing I ever saw or heard in any other preacher."

Mrs. Jordon; or, Kissing goes by Favour.

It is an old saying that kissing goes by favour, but it is not more true of real life than of mimic life. A dramatist may write,' kisses her, to all eternity, while Mr. Noble, Mr. Maddox, and some other sweet youths, have the directions to follow; for the lady-actress will manage so that it shall be all sham.

EXAMPLE.

Some years since Mrs. Jordan was playing at Margate Theatre, with a new performer, an Irishman, and when he was to have

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