Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-01-28
FOR Thu. SPECTATOR.
THE DREAMER-No. VI.


THE DREAMER-Nq. VI.
By SIMON sNoRER. Esq.
- sum up half mankind,
And add two-thirds of the remaining half,
And fnd the total of their hopes and fears,
Dreams, dreams.
CowPER.
Every day gives me fresh reason for
sell graduation on the appropriate and
real character in which appear before
The reading public. The severest and
most iiiibNral critic cannot accuse me oil
"salling under false colors," for every
number furnishes incontrovertbie inter
nal evidence that am, " hal pIoiess to
be, a downright, dreamer. |, is true,
do not, always, put Gu MY night-cap, ex-
tlnguish the candle, and close the cur
talns, before my dreams commence. liz
sooth, were nay fair readers to visit my
dorpitory, they would find plentifui
lack" OF these luxurious appliances to
sleep. They might, seeing the shelves,
the table, tnc chairs, tue floor, and The
ted sirewed with books, and newspapers,
and maeazbes, aud manuscripts, in the
most admirable philosophical Disorder
the floor unswept, the dog reposing in
the chimney, ubdisturbcd they might,
say, some Of then1, think TO themselves,
that vile would be a desirable addition
to tho furniture; jost 10 keep things
together, and live like folks. | can
Vriiy say that | have dreasaed oi some
such thing before now.
But, as was going 10 say, when this
matrimonial dream Came mo NY head
although be not actually asieep--al-
ways--a hen mr. visions present them
selves, ye, doubt not, should | continue
to amuse the public with their eAh!bl-
ton, that most, il no, all OF them, sleep
ing or waking, will be pronounced
"Dresms. dreams----"
Wolfe | fe.icils,e myself with this
mos flsuering expectation, | ain aware
Tia | have host OF competitors in the
arr, lrsde, or rather sublime science, and
mystery OF dreaming. The poet com
putes the nunbar a, hye-sixths OF The
human race. A goodly conpsny, truly !.
Blu wonder what The remaining SIKH
can find 10 do, thai they should exclude
ihemsel. IS, o. oe excia6ed, know not
which. from lie visionary majority.
1t would be amusing to take hasiy
survey OF the dreams which fit across
the brains OF some Of the mos, notable
tlreamers. SO Bucks, have st We all"
IA, least as many as shall find couve-
nien,; for, as genuine dreamer, can
not be controlled in the number or ex-
ten, of my fancies.
The ladies' AS true bachelor
place the ladies frs. TIE young,--i
mean the unmarried ladies', are prone to
Of chill had like TO have had the
word written at full length: But sup
pose they never dream OF consequences.
| have seen, before now--in dream, oil
courses parcel Of these gay dreamers
collected together, each OF them appear
OF visionsry old bachclcr-nsl so dead
/, old, neilher; and have heard them talk,
/ in unreslraIned freedom, surprising them
selves unheard by any of the masculine
gender: And what do you think, gentle
reader, was the subjec, Of their CONVEX
sa,ion Why i, wss-but do not at
feet, like Mr.. Jonathan Oldbuck, to hold
womankind in contemplate ] shall net
tel you what it vas. They might hear
OF it., and then what chance would ever
have Of getting wife, should | happen
TO be visited by waking dream Of the
kind again!
The married ladies, the matrons,
dream-but Of what, 81, being bache-
lor, and unacqusin,ed with these mat
ters" canno, be supposed to know. lie.
them dream on.
or the dreams Of cur lordly sex can
speak with greater freedom; for they
are less delicate, usually, in their nature :
a, least the dreamers, II not the dreams,
arc $ made of stcrner stuff" The dreams
of young men are frequently mixed up
in wonderfully perplexing manner