WILLIAM P----.
When ladies they wed,
It ever is said
That their _freedom_ away they have thrown;
But you've not done so,
For we very well know
You will have a _Will_ of your own.
C.K.W.
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PAINTERS.
Lavater affirms, that no one whose person is not well formed can become
a good physiognomist. Those painters were the best whose persons were
the handsomest. Reubens, Vandyke, and Raphael possessed three gradations
of beauty, and possessed three gradations of painting.
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ELYSIAN SOUP.
The French have a soup which they call "_Potage a la Camerani_" of which
it is said "a single spoonful will lap the palate in Elysium; and while
one drop remains on the tongue, each other sense is eclipsed by the
voluptuous thrilling of the lingual nerves!"
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A JAPANESE BEAUTY.
Her face was oval, her features regular, and her little mouth, when
open, disclosed a set of shining, black lacquered teeth; her hair was
black, and rolled up in the form of a turban, without any ornament,
except a few tortoiseshell combs; she had sparkling, dark eyes, was
about the middle size, and elegantly formed; her dress consisted of six
wadded silk garments, similar to our night-gowns, each fastened round
the lower part of the waist by a separate band, and drawn close together
from the girdle downwards; they were all of different colours, and the
uppermost was black.
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