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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...his dress, His daily fare as delicate. Alas 1 He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern-quill, is hungry yet 1 The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws With magic wand. So potent is the spell, That none, decoy'd into that fatal ring, Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape. There we grow early gray, but never wise; There form connexions, but acquire no friend; Solicit pleasure, hopeless of success; Waste youth in occupations only fit For second childhood, and devote old age To sports which only childhood could excuse. There they are happiest who dissemble best Their w eariness; and they the most polite Who squander time and treasure w ith a smile, Though at their own destruction. She that asks Her dear five hundred friends contemns them all, And hates their coming. They (what can they less?) Make just reprisals; and, with cringe and shrug, And bow obsequious, hide their hate of her. All catch the frenzy, downward from her grace, Who.se flambeaux flash against the morning skies, And gild our chamber ceilings as they pass, To her, who, frugal only that her thrift May feed excesses she can ill aflbrd, Is hackney'd home unlackey'd; who, in haste Alighting, turns the key in her own door, And, at the watchman's lantern borrowing light, Finds a cold bed her only comfort left. Wives beggar husbands, husbands starve their wives, On Fortune's velvet altar offering up Their last poor pittance--Fortune, most severe Of goddesses yet known, and costlier far Than all that held their routs in Juno's heaven.--So fare we in this prison-house, the world; And 'tis a fearful spectacle to see So many maniacs dancing in their chains. They gaze upon the links that hold them fast, With eyes of anguish, execrate their lot, Then shake them in despair, and da...

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