tarian reformation -- your only modern Alcides club to rid time of its abuses -- is uplift o extirpate t fluttering tatters of ty from tropolis. Scrips, s, bags -- staves, dogs, and crutc fraternity posting out of tion. From treets and turnings of allies, ting Genius of Beggary is quot;.quot;
I do not approve of to inent crusado, or bellum ad exterminationem, proclaimed against a species. Muc be sucked from these Beggars.
t and t form of pauperism. to our common nature; less revolting to an ingenuous mind to be a suppliant to ticular ure, or set of felloures, parocarian. tes uninvidious in t.
ty springing from tion; as to be naked is to be so muco to go in livery.
test spirits turned scer, do oempt? Could Vandyke ure of re, y, te admiration, ic?
tty Bessy -- tenuate, but t some sparks of a lustrous spirit of fortune, fleeing from t sentence of ript of all, and seated on ter by a better figure, doing ter, or expiating tion upon t eminence of some sempstering shop-board?
In tale or ory your Beggar is ever t antipode to your King. ts and romancical ers (as dear Margaret Nele s a reverse of fortune, never stop till t do to rags and t. t illustrates t ed to tion offence. t divest s, till ;mere nature;quot; and Cresseid, fallen from a princes love, must extend eness ty, supplicating lazar alms h bell and clap-dish.
ts kneness ty, tting up foul linen.
sound in song, t a great monarcions upon ter of a baker! yet do ion at all violated rue ballad,quot; he beggar maid?
Pauperism, pauper, poor man, are expressions of pity, but pity alloyed empt. No one properly contemns a beggar. Poverty is a comparative t is mocked by its quot;neig; Its poor rents and comings-in are soon summed up and told. Its pretences to property are almost ludicrous. Its pitiful attempts to save excite a smile. Every scornful companion can it. Poor man reproacreets ic mention of ion, ter, ive insults a Beggar, or t in t under ty. tetentation above y. None jostle o eject enement. No man sues o la t gentleman t I am, ratainer to t, a led captain, or a poor relation, I rue greatness of my mind, to be a Beggar.
Rags, enure, in o s of t. required to put on court mourning. ume obliged to study appearances. tinuetay. tock or land affectet. tuations of agricultural or commercial prosperity touc, or at but comers. expected to become bail or surety for any one. No man troubletioning ics. he universe.
ts of t city is complete turesque attire as ornamental as tanding morals, emblems, mementos, dial-mottos, tal sermons, tary co tide of greasy citizenry -
--- Look
Upon t poor and broken bankrupt there.
Above all, tobits t used to line tidiousness ing up to catcy, and (if possible) of lig t, -- of ty of double darkness, irring tread of taves? and o be s? or ied up in sacks, and dropt into t tion of B--- , tor of -- -?
ell fare tidious Vincent Bourne, most classical, and at time, most Englisinists -- ed of test of apap; and say, if customary sigle poetry as ture to do more o t and busy metropolis.
Pauperis hic iri requiesco Lyciscus, herilis,
Dum vixi, tutela vigil columenque senectae,
Dux caeco fidus: nec, me ducente, solebat,
Praetenso que hinc baculo, per iniqua locorum
Incertam explorare viam; sed fila secutus,
Quae dubios regerent passus, vestigia tuta
Fixit inoffenso gressu; gelidumque sedile
In nudo nactus saxo, qua praetereuntium
Unda frequens confluxit, ibi miserisque tenebras
Lamentis, noctemque oculis ploravit obortam.
Ploravit nec frustra; obolum dedit alter et alter,
Queis corda et mentem indiderat natura benignam.
Ad latus interea jacui sopitus herile,
Vel mediis vigil in somnis; ad herilia jussa
Auresque atque animum arrectus, seu frustula amice
Porrexit sociasque dapes, seu longa diei
taedia perpessus, reditum sub nocte parabat.
a fuit, dum fata sinebant,
Dum neque languebam morbis, nec inerte senecta;
Quae tandem obrepsit, veterique satellite cascum
Orbavit dominum prisci sed gratia facti
Ne tota intereat, longos deleta per annos,
Exiguum umulum de cespite fecit,
Etsi inopis, non ingratae, munuscula dextrae;
Carmine signavitque brevi, dominumque canemque
Quod memoret, fidumque canem dominumque benignum.
Poor Irus faithful wolf-dog here I lie,
t to tend my old blind masters steps,
ed,
staff, h which
h in fear
Over t ,
Safe in t of my friendly string,
A firm foot forill, till he had reachd
on some stone, nigide
Of passers by in t confluence flowd:
to s
From morn to eve ate he waild.
Nor o all in vain: some here,
their pennies gave.
I meantime at obsequious slept;
Not all-asleep in sleep, and ear
Prickd up at motion; to receive
At omary crums,
And common portion in of scraps;
Or
itedious beggary.
this my way of life,
till age and sloook,
And severd from my sigers side.
But lest the grace of so good deeds should die,
tract of years in mute oblivion lost,
tomb of turf h Irus reared,
C of no ungrudging hand,
And verse inscribed it, to attest,
In long and lasting union to attest,
tues of the Beggar and his Dog.
t a of to glide s of London, y upon a macacle to natives, to foreigners, and to c make, o torm and sunsural curiosity, a speculation to tific, a prodigy to t are at ty man brougo y, vieoutness, and y , of t. Fe must iced , s of 1780, and eus, and to suck in fres; as good as an Elgin marble. ture, lost, but only retired into s, and remendous voice ting do eed t arted at entous appearance. o but stature to t of a Centaur, from ion ing; and yet a jolly countenance upon ty-and-trade, and no s no ent to excraints of a poor-ing umacy in one of tened) of Correction.
as a daily spectacle like to be deemed a nuisance, o remove? or not ratary and a touc, to t city? -- Among y (and an accumulation of sigs -- is a great city; or for desirable?) room for one Lusus (not Naturae, indeed, but) Accidentium? if in forty-and-t, togeto give a portion to ributors for t if after being exposed all day to ts, ts of runk along in an elaborate and painful motion -- o retire at nigo enjoy a club of meat and vegetables, as t against tee -- ruly paternal consideration, atue rat, and is inconsistent at least ion of nocturnal orgies ed in urdy vagabond? --
t o e do t, and to ion, ay, and e too, for a companionable symbol. quot;Age, t lost t; -
ories about tunes made by begging are (I verily believe) misers calumnies. One ime since, and table inferences deduced. A clerk in t of a five ranger to. It seems t in s) ty years to drop o t of some blind Bartimeus, t sate begging alms by tor by t all t [p 120] ury pering) to ory to purse up peoples s, and pennies, against giving an aims to t ratiful moral of ed cy on t, and noble gratitude upon ther?
I sometimes wis Bank clerk.
I seem to remember a poor old grateful kind of creature, blinking, and looking up he sun --
Is it possible I could eeled my purse against him?
Perhaps I had no small change.
Reader, do not be frig tion, imposture -- give, and ask no questions. Cast ters. Some ertained angels.
S not trings al painted distress. Act a cy sometimes. ure (outay to inquire ence. Rake not into truto save a is good to believe all t endete fat) t t relieved an indigent bacerfeit looks, and mumping tones, to see a comedian feign t not certainly tell w.