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College Musings.
COLLEGE MUSINGS .
BY LITHOUHGOS . THE IDLER AT PARIS . { Continued from page 40 . ) CHA 1 TE 11 ix . IN what a strange unaccountable mood lam ! I dare be swornnot
, one of those halcyon schemes will be executed . It is all the result of chagrin and disappointment . Enough of this melancholy strain ! Now martial sounds in this city of national guards break upon mine ear . My whole soulis in arms ! How transient the fit of heroism . ' As the rolling of the drum dies away in the distance , so fades my evanescent military ardour . Real soldiering is a doubtful occupation in the mind of a moralist . Playing at soldiers a la Franfais decided tomfoolery .
Listless , inert , devoured by ennui—oppressed by a multitude of imaginary cares , I exist , until the hour arrives to lounge along the fashionable promenade of les beaux Parisiens . This is another specimen of the rationality of a certain set of people ' yclept exclusives par excellence , who are always to be found wherever there happens to be an aggregation of those human animalcule who possess more money than wit , or more time on their hands than they know how well to get through in the course of every twenty-four hours . One goose leads another in the circles of the beau monde , as much as the real animals decoy one another to the meandering circles of the farmer ' s duck-pond .
A description of the public buildings and other places of note in this emporium of pleasure , trinkets , and baubles , I shall not trouble my reader to peruse , nor myself to write . The task would be quite supererogatory , and a dull detail of what there are innumerable publications upon . Suffice it to say , they merit the encomiums bestowed on them by most travellers for their style of architecture , taste of decoration , grandeur of design , and utility of purpose . They combine massive solidity with embellished splendour , great adaptation of design with the most classic ornament , and eminently distinguish the French people as une gran . de nation .
Polemics and politics too are subjects I seldom touch upon , and I flatter myself the judicious portion of my readers , who may light upon these papers , will judge I act discreetly , especially in a country where free discussion is prohibited , and opposition to the " powers that be " visited by no very agreeable consequences . * I am not in the least degree disposed to have those polite , tender-looking , gentlemen les gens d ' armes just dropping in , as poor Listen would say , to inquire after my health , and suggesting the air of St . Pelagee , or some such dismal abode , as more salutary for my dyspepsia , or more conducive to my political ease of mind . No , no , I am not quite so great a gull , or so absolutely perplexed how to enjoy my liberty , as to desire in the remotest degree
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College Musings.
COLLEGE MUSINGS .
BY LITHOUHGOS . THE IDLER AT PARIS . { Continued from page 40 . ) CHA 1 TE 11 ix . IN what a strange unaccountable mood lam ! I dare be swornnot
, one of those halcyon schemes will be executed . It is all the result of chagrin and disappointment . Enough of this melancholy strain ! Now martial sounds in this city of national guards break upon mine ear . My whole soulis in arms ! How transient the fit of heroism . ' As the rolling of the drum dies away in the distance , so fades my evanescent military ardour . Real soldiering is a doubtful occupation in the mind of a moralist . Playing at soldiers a la Franfais decided tomfoolery .
Listless , inert , devoured by ennui—oppressed by a multitude of imaginary cares , I exist , until the hour arrives to lounge along the fashionable promenade of les beaux Parisiens . This is another specimen of the rationality of a certain set of people ' yclept exclusives par excellence , who are always to be found wherever there happens to be an aggregation of those human animalcule who possess more money than wit , or more time on their hands than they know how well to get through in the course of every twenty-four hours . One goose leads another in the circles of the beau monde , as much as the real animals decoy one another to the meandering circles of the farmer ' s duck-pond .
A description of the public buildings and other places of note in this emporium of pleasure , trinkets , and baubles , I shall not trouble my reader to peruse , nor myself to write . The task would be quite supererogatory , and a dull detail of what there are innumerable publications upon . Suffice it to say , they merit the encomiums bestowed on them by most travellers for their style of architecture , taste of decoration , grandeur of design , and utility of purpose . They combine massive solidity with embellished splendour , great adaptation of design with the most classic ornament , and eminently distinguish the French people as une gran . de nation .
Polemics and politics too are subjects I seldom touch upon , and I flatter myself the judicious portion of my readers , who may light upon these papers , will judge I act discreetly , especially in a country where free discussion is prohibited , and opposition to the " powers that be " visited by no very agreeable consequences . * I am not in the least degree disposed to have those polite , tender-looking , gentlemen les gens d ' armes just dropping in , as poor Listen would say , to inquire after my health , and suggesting the air of St . Pelagee , or some such dismal abode , as more salutary for my dyspepsia , or more conducive to my political ease of mind . No , no , I am not quite so great a gull , or so absolutely perplexed how to enjoy my liberty , as to desire in the remotest degree