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Article WISDOM AND FOLLY: A VISION. ← Page 4 of 6 →
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Wisdom And Folly: A Vision.
a hedge , another is sure to follow : if one goose cackle , the nocK cackle too ; even more sagacious animals than either sheep , asses , geese , or romance-ivri . ' ers—dogs themselves bark upon hearing other dogsdo the same , from the sympathetic spirit of barking . In a pack of hounds it is observed , that if a sagacious one gets a new scent , the rest follow . It is not surprising , therefore , that when Mrs . Ratcliflfe scented out hobgoblirs , the rest of the pack should open their throats .
Laura Maria , and many other friends of Mrs . Novel , go to the same lower regions of Fancy , which is excellent sporting-ground for hobgoblins . Of late , however , such quantities of monks , hobgoblins , and devils , have been caught , that it is feared , the breed is almost extinct . As sportsmen know well where to find a hare on her form , so do the novelists where to come upon a hobgoblin , on his form , which is commonly in some old castle , and in the tapestry of that castle .
' The learning required to form a novelist is not very extensive . Two . books , however , are indispensably necessary , —Satan ' s Invisible World , and the Gardener ' s Catalogue : the former as a magazine of fiends , the latter of trees . Davidson ' s Geography may be also useful , as it teaches that the Pyrenees are between France and Spain ; tlfat the Alps are between France and Italy ; that the Apennines run along Italjand that Naples is Sjuth from Venice ; mountainsmonksand
, , , murderers ; trees , towers , and trap-doors ; friars , fiends , and fairies , with castles and ghosts , mixed together at random , make an ollaporrida very delightful to Fools . " A Mrs . Smith , born in Wiseland , though so near the frontiers that it was almost doubtful to which Sovereign her allegiance belonged , paid her court to Mrs . Novel ; and received impregnation in
the mode above mentioned . She , as to land of nativitj ' , resembled one to whom she was very unlike in every thing else " LUCANUS AN APPULUS ANCEPS , " ' Having the misfortune not to see veiy clearly , she supposed the hillock , , bv the place of her nativity , to be the highest pinnacle
of Mount Wisdom . Her first child was a sprightly girl enough , but the rest were puny , peevish brats , and excessively vain ; eternally dunning people with the praises and private affairs of their mother . ' Mrs . Cannon was a most zealous loyalist to Folly . Before she paid her court to Mrs . Novel , she much amused people by taking two stools , trying to sit upon both , to secure one ; hitting neither ,
and so falling to the ground . She applied to Mrs . Novel to help her tip . She is very prolific : —her children are all loyal subjects to Folly . They are not , however , addicted to the fashionable exercise of ghost-hunting ; they satisfy themselves with monsters . She gives them all Quality names , that she and they may be supposed connected with Qualitya certain criterion of ability . One of them
, , under a feigned name , gave a history of ' the aforesaid misfortune of his Lady Mother ' s fall , laying the blame upon a mischiex'ous girl for kicking away the stools . That history was full of Lords , Earls , Marquises , and Dukes ,
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Wisdom And Folly: A Vision.
a hedge , another is sure to follow : if one goose cackle , the nocK cackle too ; even more sagacious animals than either sheep , asses , geese , or romance-ivri . ' ers—dogs themselves bark upon hearing other dogsdo the same , from the sympathetic spirit of barking . In a pack of hounds it is observed , that if a sagacious one gets a new scent , the rest follow . It is not surprising , therefore , that when Mrs . Ratcliflfe scented out hobgoblirs , the rest of the pack should open their throats .
Laura Maria , and many other friends of Mrs . Novel , go to the same lower regions of Fancy , which is excellent sporting-ground for hobgoblins . Of late , however , such quantities of monks , hobgoblins , and devils , have been caught , that it is feared , the breed is almost extinct . As sportsmen know well where to find a hare on her form , so do the novelists where to come upon a hobgoblin , on his form , which is commonly in some old castle , and in the tapestry of that castle .
' The learning required to form a novelist is not very extensive . Two . books , however , are indispensably necessary , —Satan ' s Invisible World , and the Gardener ' s Catalogue : the former as a magazine of fiends , the latter of trees . Davidson ' s Geography may be also useful , as it teaches that the Pyrenees are between France and Spain ; tlfat the Alps are between France and Italy ; that the Apennines run along Italjand that Naples is Sjuth from Venice ; mountainsmonksand
, , , murderers ; trees , towers , and trap-doors ; friars , fiends , and fairies , with castles and ghosts , mixed together at random , make an ollaporrida very delightful to Fools . " A Mrs . Smith , born in Wiseland , though so near the frontiers that it was almost doubtful to which Sovereign her allegiance belonged , paid her court to Mrs . Novel ; and received impregnation in
the mode above mentioned . She , as to land of nativitj ' , resembled one to whom she was very unlike in every thing else " LUCANUS AN APPULUS ANCEPS , " ' Having the misfortune not to see veiy clearly , she supposed the hillock , , bv the place of her nativity , to be the highest pinnacle
of Mount Wisdom . Her first child was a sprightly girl enough , but the rest were puny , peevish brats , and excessively vain ; eternally dunning people with the praises and private affairs of their mother . ' Mrs . Cannon was a most zealous loyalist to Folly . Before she paid her court to Mrs . Novel , she much amused people by taking two stools , trying to sit upon both , to secure one ; hitting neither ,
and so falling to the ground . She applied to Mrs . Novel to help her tip . She is very prolific : —her children are all loyal subjects to Folly . They are not , however , addicted to the fashionable exercise of ghost-hunting ; they satisfy themselves with monsters . She gives them all Quality names , that she and they may be supposed connected with Qualitya certain criterion of ability . One of them
, , under a feigned name , gave a history of ' the aforesaid misfortune of his Lady Mother ' s fall , laying the blame upon a mischiex'ous girl for kicking away the stools . That history was full of Lords , Earls , Marquises , and Dukes ,