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The Freemason.
Puppy speakers are very numerous , especially at the bar , where they speak in such a fine manner as to abbreviate not only words but sentences . ' One hand is kept in constant action for the sake of displaying the adorned little finger , while the other is generally employed In settling the muslin cravat , or displaying the frill of the shirt . — As to their arguments , they are of such a trifling puerile nature as to
create continual laughter : this , instead of dismaying , encourages the speaker , who begins to imagine himself a wit . Hence puppy wits originate ; a set of unmeaning coxcombs who prefer sound to sense .. Puppy preachers are those fine reverends who , like puppy speakers , affect a nice pronunciation , bordering upon a lisp . Those divine puppies are known by the stroking of a white handand admiring if
, with a ring in the middle of a sermon—a bag-front dressed head of hair—a simpering ogle—and a circling gaze for admiration , particularly from the ladies . Puppy critics are exceedingly numerous—they are at the theatres every first night , of a new play , and generally agree among themselves whether the author shall be damned or not . If they are
previously determined that the play shall be done over , according to their phrase , not all the merits of character , incident , or moral , can ' protect it . Many a good drama has thus been sacrificed to the wanton fury of those tyrannic critics , whose puppyism , in this instance , is very detrimental to the republic of letters . Sometimes they are engaged to support a ph . y , which they do with equal violence , though it
be devoid of any merit to recommend it . These puppies are very consequential beings , and in their own opinions exceedingly sensible ^ Puppy connoisseurs are pretty much the same with the preceding , only that they are not , like the puppy critics , confined to literary matters ; these pretending to give a decisive judgment on every thing—medalspictures & c .
, , Puppy intriguers are a considerable nuisance to the metropolis , continually dangling after every beauty they hear of with all the freedom of a favoured lover . These non-gentlemen are frequently the servants or jackalls of some greater animals , by whom they are employed for the sake of providing dainty mistresses ; their proper name is pimp .
Puppy friends , alias flatterers , alias sycophants , alias toad-eaters , alias scoundrels , are the followers of all the great , the credulous , and the vain . These contemptible puppies are exceedingly servile and attentive for their own private ends . Adulation is their study , dissimulation is their glory ; they can cringe and fawn like a spaniel , and lie and cheat with the devil . Puppy pods me very numerousand I am sorry to remark the most
, encouraged in the present age ; they pretend to write any thing , nay even tragedies and comedies , though grammar is shocked at their diction , common sense offended with their sentiments , modesty put to the blush with their wit , and nature kicked out of every act . These poets first begin with acrostics—then aspire to riddles , conundrums , and anagrams—after which they venture upon sonnets—by
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The Freemason.
Puppy speakers are very numerous , especially at the bar , where they speak in such a fine manner as to abbreviate not only words but sentences . ' One hand is kept in constant action for the sake of displaying the adorned little finger , while the other is generally employed In settling the muslin cravat , or displaying the frill of the shirt . — As to their arguments , they are of such a trifling puerile nature as to
create continual laughter : this , instead of dismaying , encourages the speaker , who begins to imagine himself a wit . Hence puppy wits originate ; a set of unmeaning coxcombs who prefer sound to sense .. Puppy preachers are those fine reverends who , like puppy speakers , affect a nice pronunciation , bordering upon a lisp . Those divine puppies are known by the stroking of a white handand admiring if
, with a ring in the middle of a sermon—a bag-front dressed head of hair—a simpering ogle—and a circling gaze for admiration , particularly from the ladies . Puppy critics are exceedingly numerous—they are at the theatres every first night , of a new play , and generally agree among themselves whether the author shall be damned or not . If they are
previously determined that the play shall be done over , according to their phrase , not all the merits of character , incident , or moral , can ' protect it . Many a good drama has thus been sacrificed to the wanton fury of those tyrannic critics , whose puppyism , in this instance , is very detrimental to the republic of letters . Sometimes they are engaged to support a ph . y , which they do with equal violence , though it
be devoid of any merit to recommend it . These puppies are very consequential beings , and in their own opinions exceedingly sensible ^ Puppy connoisseurs are pretty much the same with the preceding , only that they are not , like the puppy critics , confined to literary matters ; these pretending to give a decisive judgment on every thing—medalspictures & c .
, , Puppy intriguers are a considerable nuisance to the metropolis , continually dangling after every beauty they hear of with all the freedom of a favoured lover . These non-gentlemen are frequently the servants or jackalls of some greater animals , by whom they are employed for the sake of providing dainty mistresses ; their proper name is pimp .
Puppy friends , alias flatterers , alias sycophants , alias toad-eaters , alias scoundrels , are the followers of all the great , the credulous , and the vain . These contemptible puppies are exceedingly servile and attentive for their own private ends . Adulation is their study , dissimulation is their glory ; they can cringe and fawn like a spaniel , and lie and cheat with the devil . Puppy pods me very numerousand I am sorry to remark the most
, encouraged in the present age ; they pretend to write any thing , nay even tragedies and comedies , though grammar is shocked at their diction , common sense offended with their sentiments , modesty put to the blush with their wit , and nature kicked out of every act . These poets first begin with acrostics—then aspire to riddles , conundrums , and anagrams—after which they venture upon sonnets—by