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I have myself seen a drawing of this rural dance, in which I counted no less than sixty performers. The celebrated Pilades is mentioned to have been the great improver of this dance. He excluded from it all jumping or capering, for fear of violating or of disfiguring the graceful regularity of the whole, which he considered as the most essential towards preserving a pleasing effect.
Rushing across the street, he intercepted that institutional gentleman in the act of dipping a brush into a can in front of Number 37. "Don't, for Heaven's sake, touch that front!" implored the improver of it. "Why not?" demanded the Estate. "I want to rent it. As it is. From to-day." The Mordaunt Estate turned a dull, Wagboomish look of denial upon him. "Nope," said he.
If the initiatory period is safely past, the apprentice becomes an "improver;" that is, she is allowed larger choice of work, looks on or even tries her own hand when draping is to be done, and if quick is shortly ranked as an assistant. With this stage comes a small wage.
This conveyed no very distinct idea to the ladies; but Vizard, for the first time, turned red at this revelation before Uxmoor, improver of cottage life. "Confound the brutes!" said he. "Why, I built them a new room; a larger one: didn't you see it?" "Yes. They stack their potatoes in it." "Just like my people," said Uxmoor. "That is the worst of it: they resist their own improvement."
But the tradition that our English shopman is in the same class as his master, that he has been apprentice and improver, and is now assistant, with a view to presently being a master himself, still throws its glamour over his life and his home, and his child's upbringing.
I have now been several years occupied as an improver of land and planter of trees. The same bishop gives us a most extraordinary description of the sources from whence his clerical income was derived.
Mine were under a benevolent prince, in promoting the commerce, manufactures, and agriculture of his kingdom, in which his Majesty shows an eminent example, who even in his amusements is a patriot, and in hours of leisure an improver of his native soil.
He valued a guinea as little as any man: money to him was no more than dirt, and his gentleman and groom, and all belonging to him, the same; but the sporting season over, he grew tired of the place, and having got down a great architect for the house, and an improver for the grounds, and seen their plans and elevations, he fixed a day for settling with the tenants, but went off in a whirlwind to town, just as some of them came into the yard in the morning.
The advantages of his invention were so great that his instrument was universally adopted, and hence he gained the credit of being the inventor of the mariner's compass, of which he was only the improver. Long before the compass was used at sea, it had been employed by the Chinese to direct the course of their caravans across the desert.
Malthus is at present disposed to deny, or that he has not himself expressly insisted upon in some part or other of his various works. He only argues that Malthus's concessions are made at the cost of self-contradiction. Why then, it may be asked, should not Hazlitt take the position of an improver and harmoniser of the doctrine rather than of a fierce opponent?
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