The Roxburghe ballads . g except Cremation, and thatprematurely accelerated, could protect hisremains (bodily, not literary) from the vengeance of the RedundantSex, were they to detect him. They have never quite forgiven thevery-much-married King Solomon, for having described the typicalStrange Woman with her enticements, whose good man is notat home; he is gone a long journey. (Similarly objectionable isthe odious woman when she is married: this expression beingAgurs, not Solomons own.) True, he admits that whoso findetha wife findeth a good thing, and obtaiueth favour of the when we
The Roxburghe ballads . g except Cremation, and thatprematurely accelerated, could protect hisremains (bodily, not literary) from the vengeance of the RedundantSex, were they to detect him. They have never quite forgiven thevery-much-married King Solomon, for having described the typicalStrange Woman with her enticements, whose good man is notat home; he is gone a long journey. (Similarly objectionable isthe odious woman when she is married: this expression beingAgurs, not Solomons own.) True, he admits that whoso findetha wife findeth a good thing, and obtaiueth favour of the when were a mans best deeds or his words of praise accountedas either atonement or equivalent for having uttered hard sayings ?Sad might it be for Dervaux, were his magnum opus to appear: hewould encounter more than a bad quarter of an hour. It is dreadfulin its revelations, harrowing in its details ; especially the chapterdevoted to belles-meres, our awful Mothers-in-Law. Neverthelesswe found him a most devoted admirer of the. English Mees. VOL. VII. 130 The \\m]proper study of mankind is [Wo]wa». Happy was he, when philandering by the side of some sweet virgin,who judiciously made the most of her fresh untainted girlhood,with her light ringing laugh, her point-blank questions, and hersaucy replies, while she flitted among the orchids at Chelsea, orHighbury, Birminghams paradise; or watched the over-grown boyscricketing at Lords ground, or the competing crews of Oxford andCambridge on the river, where she wore a ribbon-rosette of thefavourite Light-Blue displayed on her bosom (and the other colour,hidden at first, but ready to be unveiled by a slight adjustment ofdrapery, in case Fortune the fickle should transfer her favour tothe antagonistic Dark-Blue of Isis). Dervaux is well instructed inall the pretty nothings, which a man ought to speak or to hear;yet never be rude enough to hint that he possesses earnestness ofpurpose, noble ambition, or scorn of duplicity and petty gossip :a
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