-
Articles/Ads
Article THE ADVENTURES OF DON PASQUALE. ← Page 3 of 3 Article SONNET. Page 1 of 1
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Adventures Of Don Pasquale.
Marriage with our friends , however , unlike some couples you and I know of , dear readers , has been a very happy episode , and nothing has ever happened to dim the sunshine of their lives , or make them regret that they took what Compton always jokingly terms " a header . " Bechner has made himself a happy home in his old chateau , where a young Bectmer is duly trained to fight , if need be , as his father fought , "Fur Gott , fur Kaiser , und Vaterland . " Stanelli ' s home is at Venice , where he too is bringing up some yoiuig Italians devoted to " Hnited Italy . "
Madame Allegri passes from one home to the other at stated times , for ever useful , agreeable , ancl charming , and never in the way ( some mothers-in-law can't say that ); and while Balthazar makes the most complaisant and sententious of husbands , is the most sagacious if pleasant of companions . Paesiello and Compton are still unmarried , and spend much of their time alternately at each other ' s house , and in tbe Tyrol , and at Venice . A fast friendshi p imites them , which nothing can weaken or dissolve . What may be their future lot , who can say ?
Wilt they succumb to woman ' s eyes or woman ' s wit ? will they learn to be cold and cynical , worldly and frivolous ? or will some good fairy still help them along life ' s dusty pathway , and preserve them pure-hearted and generous , " tender and true , " to the last ? We must leave to Time , the great discoverer of all secrets here ( except Junius and the Man in the Iron Mask ) , to reveal , if ever it can be revealed , the subsequent fate "if our hero ancl his friend . And thus the curtain falls at the prompter ' s call . Valetew plaudits , omncs 1
Sonnet.
SONNET .
NATURE—false fashion ' s inroads to restrain—No prefe rence , or but bttle , doth profess For arts of female pride ; nor grants access To those her modest teachings who disdain . Though bright the golden peacock's spangled train , The peahen ' s garb how plain in loveliness ; How splendid the cock ' s military dress
, His hens , less fair attir'd , how little vain ; Ancl so of other fowls , or wild or tame . Tet maids , wives , widows , this wise lesson scorn , Ancl still themselves extravagantly adorn With meretricious graces , all the same ; As if not theirs the far more flatt ' ring
boast—, "Beauty , when iniadorn'd , adorn'd the most . " BKO . RET . M . GOEIO ? .. 28 , Sun Street , Tunstall , - Forth Staffordshire .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Adventures Of Don Pasquale.
Marriage with our friends , however , unlike some couples you and I know of , dear readers , has been a very happy episode , and nothing has ever happened to dim the sunshine of their lives , or make them regret that they took what Compton always jokingly terms " a header . " Bechner has made himself a happy home in his old chateau , where a young Bectmer is duly trained to fight , if need be , as his father fought , "Fur Gott , fur Kaiser , und Vaterland . " Stanelli ' s home is at Venice , where he too is bringing up some yoiuig Italians devoted to " Hnited Italy . "
Madame Allegri passes from one home to the other at stated times , for ever useful , agreeable , ancl charming , and never in the way ( some mothers-in-law can't say that ); and while Balthazar makes the most complaisant and sententious of husbands , is the most sagacious if pleasant of companions . Paesiello and Compton are still unmarried , and spend much of their time alternately at each other ' s house , and in tbe Tyrol , and at Venice . A fast friendshi p imites them , which nothing can weaken or dissolve . What may be their future lot , who can say ?
Wilt they succumb to woman ' s eyes or woman ' s wit ? will they learn to be cold and cynical , worldly and frivolous ? or will some good fairy still help them along life ' s dusty pathway , and preserve them pure-hearted and generous , " tender and true , " to the last ? We must leave to Time , the great discoverer of all secrets here ( except Junius and the Man in the Iron Mask ) , to reveal , if ever it can be revealed , the subsequent fate "if our hero ancl his friend . And thus the curtain falls at the prompter ' s call . Valetew plaudits , omncs 1
Sonnet.
SONNET .
NATURE—false fashion ' s inroads to restrain—No prefe rence , or but bttle , doth profess For arts of female pride ; nor grants access To those her modest teachings who disdain . Though bright the golden peacock's spangled train , The peahen ' s garb how plain in loveliness ; How splendid the cock ' s military dress
, His hens , less fair attir'd , how little vain ; Ancl so of other fowls , or wild or tame . Tet maids , wives , widows , this wise lesson scorn , Ancl still themselves extravagantly adorn With meretricious graces , all the same ; As if not theirs the far more flatt ' ring
boast—, "Beauty , when iniadorn'd , adorn'd the most . " BKO . RET . M . GOEIO ? .. 28 , Sun Street , Tunstall , - Forth Staffordshire .