. Thackerayana;. nsafe forany one to walk within several yards of him. In this manner hetook up the whole Mall, his spectators moving on each side of it,whilst he cocked up his hat, and marched directly for Westmin-ster. I cannot tell who this gentleman is, but for my comfortmay say, with the lover in Terence, who lost sight of a fine younglady, Wherever thou art, thou canst not be long concealed. No. 103. The Tatler.—Dec. 6, 1709. These toys will once to serious mischiefs fall,When he is laughed at, when hes jeerd by all. Creech (ab Hor., Ars. Poet. v. 452). The Tatler, pursuing his vocation
. Thackerayana;. nsafe forany one to walk within several yards of him. In this manner hetook up the whole Mall, his spectators moving on each side of it,whilst he cocked up his hat, and marched directly for Westmin-ster. I cannot tell who this gentleman is, but for my comfortmay say, with the lover in Terence, who lost sight of a fine younglady, Wherever thou art, thou canst not be long concealed. No. 103. The Tatler.—Dec. 6, 1709. These toys will once to serious mischiefs fall,When he is laughed at, when hes jeerd by all. Creech (ab Hor., Ars. Poet. v. 452). The Tatler, pursuing his vocation as a censor of manners, ispresumed to have established a court, before which ail bearers ofcanes, snuff-boxes, perfumed handkerchiefs, perspective glasses,&c, are brought, that they may, upon showing proper cause, havelicenses granted for carrying the same ; but upon conviction thatthese appendages of fashion are adopted merely out of frivolousshow, the articles thus exposed are ordered to become Having despatched this set of my petitioners, the bearers ofcanes, there came in a well-dressed man, with a glass tube in onehand, and his petition in the other. Upon his entering the room,he threw back the right side of his wig, put forward his right leg,and advancing the glass to his right eye, aimed it directly at the meanwhile, to make my observations also, I put on my THE TATLER: 257 spectacles; in which posture we surveyed each other for sometime. Upon the removal of our glasses, I desired him to read hispetition, which he did very promptly and easily; though at thesame time it sets forth that he could see nothing distinctly, andwas within very few degrees of being utterly blind, concludingwith a prayer, that he might be permitted to strengthen his sightby a glass. In answer to this, I told him he might sometimesextend it to his own destruction. As you are now, said I, youare out of the reach of beauty; the shafts of the finest eyes losetheir force before they
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