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Wisdom And Folly. A Vision.
WISDOM AND FOLLY . A VISION .
No . III . [ CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST . ]
MR . Antique shewed also many remnants of painting , sculpture , and statuary ; a beauty without a nose ; a lover , in that state in which Martinus Scriblerus describes an image of Cato ; boxers without arms , and philosophers without heads . These remnants the virtuoso prized much more than the finest entire pieces . ^ He produced also many fragments of copper coins , which , he said , had cost Anti
him a much greater number of entire golden ones . Mynheer que was going to present a gentleman of a grave , solemn air , like himself , to her Majesty . But she quickly interrupted him : — ' You need not introduce him to me . Mr . Gowk is a native subject , and one of the most loyal I have . My faithful Gowk , how goes your Treatise upon Rusty Nails ? I hope your Dissertation on Boars' Heads and science
Lions . couchant is in forwardness - ? Heraldry is indeed a worthy of FOOLS ! ' ' Most gracious Queen , ' said Mr . Gowk , _ 'it is one of the distinguishing characteristics of a subject of . Folly , in studies , pursuits , and conduct , totally to disregard utility . Here 1 presume to boast of myself . Can any man point out any kind of labour more USELESS than ' that which is employed in heraldic disquisitions ? Such have occupied the greater part of my life . Even my foe , Peter
Pindar ( not foe to me alone of Fools ) bears testimony to my zeal and intrepidity in extending the dominion of Folly . Her Majesty ' s attention was next attracted by persons with spy-glasses , followed by porters , carrying loads of p ictures ; and approved highly of some , especially of those which shewed more care had been , bestowed on the drapery than the features and figure . Some ' she did not seem to likebut expressed her warm regard for the spy-glass menwho were
, , , I found , the owners of the paintings . One gentleman in particular was received with the most distinguishing marks of favour and admiration . This was a very short man , having his hair dressed with the stiffest exactness , rising from a forehead of the thickest bone : a solemn formality of mien . attempted to conceal the emptiness of a sillcountenance—a gaitthe insignificance of a diminutive
y pompous , figure . From this person issued , in a slow , monotonous voice , words which the Queen acknowledged to denote a home-bred subject of Folly . He was indeed every way her own : born in Stupidity , educated in Frivolity , and finished by Vanity . I observed a person by the little man , who from time to time whispered him ; after which Air . Borewell Brainless ( for so he was called ) produced pictures of
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Wisdom And Folly. A Vision.
WISDOM AND FOLLY . A VISION .
No . III . [ CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST . ]
MR . Antique shewed also many remnants of painting , sculpture , and statuary ; a beauty without a nose ; a lover , in that state in which Martinus Scriblerus describes an image of Cato ; boxers without arms , and philosophers without heads . These remnants the virtuoso prized much more than the finest entire pieces . ^ He produced also many fragments of copper coins , which , he said , had cost Anti
him a much greater number of entire golden ones . Mynheer que was going to present a gentleman of a grave , solemn air , like himself , to her Majesty . But she quickly interrupted him : — ' You need not introduce him to me . Mr . Gowk is a native subject , and one of the most loyal I have . My faithful Gowk , how goes your Treatise upon Rusty Nails ? I hope your Dissertation on Boars' Heads and science
Lions . couchant is in forwardness - ? Heraldry is indeed a worthy of FOOLS ! ' ' Most gracious Queen , ' said Mr . Gowk , _ 'it is one of the distinguishing characteristics of a subject of . Folly , in studies , pursuits , and conduct , totally to disregard utility . Here 1 presume to boast of myself . Can any man point out any kind of labour more USELESS than ' that which is employed in heraldic disquisitions ? Such have occupied the greater part of my life . Even my foe , Peter
Pindar ( not foe to me alone of Fools ) bears testimony to my zeal and intrepidity in extending the dominion of Folly . Her Majesty ' s attention was next attracted by persons with spy-glasses , followed by porters , carrying loads of p ictures ; and approved highly of some , especially of those which shewed more care had been , bestowed on the drapery than the features and figure . Some ' she did not seem to likebut expressed her warm regard for the spy-glass menwho were
, , , I found , the owners of the paintings . One gentleman in particular was received with the most distinguishing marks of favour and admiration . This was a very short man , having his hair dressed with the stiffest exactness , rising from a forehead of the thickest bone : a solemn formality of mien . attempted to conceal the emptiness of a sillcountenance—a gaitthe insignificance of a diminutive
y pompous , figure . From this person issued , in a slow , monotonous voice , words which the Queen acknowledged to denote a home-bred subject of Folly . He was indeed every way her own : born in Stupidity , educated in Frivolity , and finished by Vanity . I observed a person by the little man , who from time to time whispered him ; after which Air . Borewell Brainless ( for so he was called ) produced pictures of