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Carnaby The First.
CARNABY THE FIRST .
A GRAND MULTECCENTRIC EXTRAVAGANZA . IN TAVO FITS . BY HAEGEAVE JENNINGS .
" Men bearded , bald , cowl'd , Tincowl'd , shod , unshod ; Peel'd , patch'd , and piebald , linsey-wolsey brothers , Grave mummies , sleeveless some , and shirtless others . All sudden , Gorgons hiss and Dragons glare ; The forests dance , the rivers upward rise , — Whales sport in woods , and dolphins in the skies . " POPE .
FIT THE FIRST . READER , can you , no matter Avhat time of year , fancy a fine , burning , blazing , redhot day ? If you cannot , I pity you for several reasons . Imprimis , because you cannot understand what is good ; secondly , because you must be but a cold-blooded creature—a fish content always to swim in aqua purd , without
the infusion of something more genial in his element ; and thirdly , and lastly , and chiefly , because you must be sadly deficient in imagination . Now imagination is one of the greatest goods , for possessing it , we possess everything . Dumb waiters to that dumb deAnl who is always content to see things as they are ! What is it but to intensify our imagination to the proper power , to have all the riches of the earth !
To the reader Avho pleads to no imagination—AVIIO cannot boast an acre of that windy splendour—I can say nought but alack ! and pass by , folding my robe about me , and walking up my own steps , —like an apotre or scriptural personage , ascending a grand temple-like staircase in an old picture . Fancy the burningest of your burning July days , and then
you woidd not have half done . Our scene is a flaming plain in Upper India—all sand and serpents . Scatter over the landscape some dozens of palm trees , shining like noon-day torches : your eyes ache with the glare . Close to you the pebbles are so hot that you scorch your fingers in touching them . Sitting upon such is impossible , except from an intervening protection afforded by spotted shawls of fifty doublings .
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Carnaby The First.
CARNABY THE FIRST .
A GRAND MULTECCENTRIC EXTRAVAGANZA . IN TAVO FITS . BY HAEGEAVE JENNINGS .
" Men bearded , bald , cowl'd , Tincowl'd , shod , unshod ; Peel'd , patch'd , and piebald , linsey-wolsey brothers , Grave mummies , sleeveless some , and shirtless others . All sudden , Gorgons hiss and Dragons glare ; The forests dance , the rivers upward rise , — Whales sport in woods , and dolphins in the skies . " POPE .
FIT THE FIRST . READER , can you , no matter Avhat time of year , fancy a fine , burning , blazing , redhot day ? If you cannot , I pity you for several reasons . Imprimis , because you cannot understand what is good ; secondly , because you must be but a cold-blooded creature—a fish content always to swim in aqua purd , without
the infusion of something more genial in his element ; and thirdly , and lastly , and chiefly , because you must be sadly deficient in imagination . Now imagination is one of the greatest goods , for possessing it , we possess everything . Dumb waiters to that dumb deAnl who is always content to see things as they are ! What is it but to intensify our imagination to the proper power , to have all the riches of the earth !
To the reader Avho pleads to no imagination—AVIIO cannot boast an acre of that windy splendour—I can say nought but alack ! and pass by , folding my robe about me , and walking up my own steps , —like an apotre or scriptural personage , ascending a grand temple-like staircase in an old picture . Fancy the burningest of your burning July days , and then
you woidd not have half done . Our scene is a flaming plain in Upper India—all sand and serpents . Scatter over the landscape some dozens of palm trees , shining like noon-day torches : your eyes ache with the glare . Close to you the pebbles are so hot that you scorch your fingers in touching them . Sitting upon such is impossible , except from an intervening protection afforded by spotted shawls of fifty doublings .