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Article FEMALE CHARACTERS. THE DOMESTIC AND THE GADDER. ← Page 3 of 3 Article CHARACTER OF MECOENAS, Page 1 of 2 →
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Female Characters. The Domestic And The Gadder.
Equal in her temper , and warm nly in her family and friendly attachments .
With her you may live upon good terms if deserving . Gay without affectation , lively without levity , and grave without melanchoty . Is ever content with her
situation , and as it happens to become better , it has no improper influence on her mind . Is ceconomical without meanness , polite without affectation , and generous without
ostentation . Her husband puts entire confidence in her and he finds the burthen of an encreasing family lessened by her prudent management .
IN A . WOItD ,
When she comes to die , has every consolation which can alleviate the horrors of that awful period .
Is always " in the cellar or m the garret , " too low or too high ; and her attachments have the imprudent zeal of blind enthusiasm , from which they pass by an easy transition into the coldness of prideor the wickedness of
ha-, tred . Of her friendship you are never certain , whether you deserve it or not . Volatile , rompish , and grave or gaywithout knowing why or
, wherefore . Is envious of riches , and ant imitator ( however clumsily ) of the manners of high life . Is extravagant without being
genteel , artificially polite , and generous by fits and starts , without doing good . Lives in a sort of genteel hostility with her spouse , and finds it necessary to deceive him in accounting for the management of money-matters .
Anxious , confused , terrified , and incapable of recollecting those actions of "life which bear reflection , is ready to cry out— " Plast thou found me , O mine eneim '„"
Character Of Mecoenas,
CHARACTER OF MECOENAS ,
Favourite of the Emperor AUGUSTUS , and Patron of VIRGIL , HORACE , aud the other great Poets and literary Men of the Augustan Age .
MECCENAS was generally reputed more a man of letters than a man of political talents ; yet , what is extraordinary , ' there are no pieces remaining that can with an ) " - certainty be attributed to him , or that carry the stamp of his peculiar genius . If his works are lost , his fame will however survive , as long as books have any existence in the world . Pie had a sincere passion for all sorts of polite learning , aud honoured all men with his friendship and an unaffected intimacy who excelled that war ; lie did not only give
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Female Characters. The Domestic And The Gadder.
Equal in her temper , and warm nly in her family and friendly attachments .
With her you may live upon good terms if deserving . Gay without affectation , lively without levity , and grave without melanchoty . Is ever content with her
situation , and as it happens to become better , it has no improper influence on her mind . Is ceconomical without meanness , polite without affectation , and generous without
ostentation . Her husband puts entire confidence in her and he finds the burthen of an encreasing family lessened by her prudent management .
IN A . WOItD ,
When she comes to die , has every consolation which can alleviate the horrors of that awful period .
Is always " in the cellar or m the garret , " too low or too high ; and her attachments have the imprudent zeal of blind enthusiasm , from which they pass by an easy transition into the coldness of prideor the wickedness of
ha-, tred . Of her friendship you are never certain , whether you deserve it or not . Volatile , rompish , and grave or gaywithout knowing why or
, wherefore . Is envious of riches , and ant imitator ( however clumsily ) of the manners of high life . Is extravagant without being
genteel , artificially polite , and generous by fits and starts , without doing good . Lives in a sort of genteel hostility with her spouse , and finds it necessary to deceive him in accounting for the management of money-matters .
Anxious , confused , terrified , and incapable of recollecting those actions of "life which bear reflection , is ready to cry out— " Plast thou found me , O mine eneim '„"
Character Of Mecoenas,
CHARACTER OF MECOENAS ,
Favourite of the Emperor AUGUSTUS , and Patron of VIRGIL , HORACE , aud the other great Poets and literary Men of the Augustan Age .
MECCENAS was generally reputed more a man of letters than a man of political talents ; yet , what is extraordinary , ' there are no pieces remaining that can with an ) " - certainty be attributed to him , or that carry the stamp of his peculiar genius . If his works are lost , his fame will however survive , as long as books have any existence in the world . Pie had a sincere passion for all sorts of polite learning , aud honoured all men with his friendship and an unaffected intimacy who excelled that war ; lie did not only give