. Thackerayana;. to retire, but the husbandprevented the compliments of the rest of the company by saying, We should be unhappy without her. As the bottle went round,he joined her health to every toast, and could not help now andthen rising from his chair to press her hand, and manifest the THE CONNOISSEUR: 363 warmth of his passion by the ardour of his caresses. This preciousfooling, though it highly entertained them, gave me great disgust;therefore, as my company might very well be spared, I took myleave as soon as possible. No. 8. The Connoisseur.—March 21, 1754. In outward show so splendid
. Thackerayana;. to retire, but the husbandprevented the compliments of the rest of the company by saying, We should be unhappy without her. As the bottle went round,he joined her health to every toast, and could not help now andthen rising from his chair to press her hand, and manifest the THE CONNOISSEUR: 363 warmth of his passion by the ardour of his caresses. This preciousfooling, though it highly entertained them, gave me great disgust;therefore, as my company might very well be spared, I took myleave as soon as possible. No. 8. The Connoisseur.—March 21, 1754. In outward show so splendid and so vain,Tis but a gilded block without a brain. I hope it will not be imputed to envy or malevolence that Ihere remark on the sign hung out before the productions of When he gave his paper the title of the World, Isuppose he meant to intimate his design of describing that part ofit who are known to account all other persons Nobody, andare therefore emphatically called the World. If this was to. be pictured out in the head-piece, a lady at her toilette, a partyat whist, or the jovial member of the Dilettanti tapping the worldfor champagne, had been the most natural and obvious hierogly-phics. But when we see the portrait of a philosopher poring onthe globe, instead of observations on modern life, we might morenaturally expect a system of geography, or an attempt towards adiscovery of the longitude. Yet, in spite of all these disadvantages, the love of pleasure,and a few supernumerary guineas, draw the student from hisliterary employment, and entice him to this theatre of noise andhurry, this grand mart of luxury; where, as long as his purse cansupply him, he may be as idle and debauched as he pleases. Icould not help smiling at a dialogue between two of these gentle-men, which I overheard a few nights ago at the Bedford Coffee-house. Ha! Jack, says one, accosting the other, is it you ?How long have you been in town ? Two hours. How long 364 THA CKERA YA NA. d
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