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No; the people who keep that tablet well, never can be bankrupt. And the society of those old Romans; their daily passions occupations humours! why, the satire of Horace is the glass of our own follies! We may fancy his easy pages written in the Chaussee d'Antin, or Mayfair; but there was one thing that will ever keep the ancient world dissimilar from the modern." "And what is that?"
Upon the whole, it is hoped that the Waverley Novels, in their new dress, will not be found to have lost any part of their attractions in consequence of receiving illustrations by the Author, and undergoing his careful revision. ABBOTSFORD, January, 1829. -And must I ravel out My weaved-up follies? Richard II, Act IV.
Thou say'st man hates me 'cause I am a spider, Poor man, thou at thy God art a derider; My venom tendeth to my preservation, Thy pleasing follies work out thy damnation. Poor man, I keep the rules of my creation, Thy sin has cast thee headlong from thy station.
Age would indulge prejudices if it did not sometimes polish itself against younger acquaintance; but it must be the work of folly if one hopes to contract friendships with them, or desires it, or thinks one can become the same follies, or expects that they should do more than bear one for one's good-humour. In short, they are a pleasant medicine, that one should take care not to grow fond of.
"You were told stories and very exaggerated they doubtless were by Lucy Merriman when Irene and I were at The Follies to-day." "I was told frightful stories all about Irene." "Then do you mean to tell me you don't love her any more?" "I shall always love her; but if she were to do such a thing to me it would kill me." "She would never do such a thing to you.
With the exception of this inordinate liking for the romantic and mysterious, by which she was sometimes betrayed into follies and absurdities that provoked a little harmless scandal or ridicule, Miss Cornelia has ever been held in good repute among her neighbors as a kind-hearted, obliging, sentimental little woman.
God knows I am no saint; I have a whole host of follies and sins to answer for; but if I could and I believe I do it as far as I can I would wipe away all tears from all eyes. Adieu! CLI. To MRS. DUNLOP. ELLISLAND, 10th April 1790. I have just now, my ever honoured friend, enjoyed a very high luxury, in reading a paper of the Lounger. You know my national prejudices.
If so, it is reasonable to suppose, that they will change their character, and correct their vices and follies, when they are allowed to be free in a physical, moral, and civil sense. Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or justify the authority that chains such a weak being to her duty.
But the truth is that Erasmus had far more intellect than Luther; he knew too much to be a fanatic; and while he lashed the vices and follies of the Catholic Church, he never left her fold, partly because he perceived that Luther and the Reformers were as much the slaves of exclusive dogmas as the very Schoolmen themselves. Erasmus believed in freedom of thought, but Luther never did.
When he was outrageously extravagant in these stories of his, Bhanavar exclaimed, 'Are such things, now? can it be true? And he nodded in his conceit, and replied loftily, ''Tis certain, O my Prince and Princess! ye be from the mountains, unused to the follies and dissipations of men where they herd; and ye know them not, men!
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