Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-08
The rest viii be discussed better under the

head Of GRACE
The very sublima,ion Of airs and grnces ap
pears 10 have taken place IN the person OIL Tue
celebrated Lucy, Countess Of Carlisle, who was
bepr aised hv the wits and politicians OF ohar'es
the First's time, till she could not carry ner
head high enough. There is q portrait OF ner
BY Vandyke, in which you may see her chara.-
ter. She was that alarming parsonage, iema'e
pr:e and busy body; and ofthe very first waller.
SIR Toby Mathews, person as iansastic III "''
way as herself, as vain and ofhe ious, and making
a laundering hustle with his Jesuitical renne-
m.n,s. wrote an extraordinary panegyrlc upon
hr. which. as Horace Walpole says, might DC
,akeo for satire. However, there is no douDt
,ba, he intended il for what he SAID; and pro-
badly when ne sent il her, he thought III. re were
no two such persons on earth, Tor superiority
of nature, or so fl 20 praise and be praised OIL
one another. The following are the most re-
markahIe passages:-
"She was If too high a mind. not only to
seek, but almost TO wish, the friendship OF any
creature: they, whom she is pleased to choose,
are such as are Of he most eminent cond,tlon,
both for their power and empoymen's; not
with anv design towards her own particular,
either of d,antage, or CURIOSITY; but her ma
ture values fortunate persons, as viruous: VINO
il tncy be not so by this opinion, they have the
advantage of them that are so by this choice
They are, even as II were, In her
very veins, as brothers and sisters she extreme
" loves: nut she values them as They are so 10
h,r: she wants not also kindness for their chill
drep. But such as are removed from her, she
considers 10 otherwise than as streams which
run TOO far off To have any participation OF her
excelltncies. She has as much sense and era
ttude for The actions Of friendship, as so cx-
trene a beauty will give her leave TO entertain.
-. She hath too great heart, TO have
naturally any strong inclination; not allowing
them to gov from thence, as finding there no
motions OF affection, but only upon considera
ton of The merits of others towards her: so
that, naturally, she hath no passion al all, since
inclInatiohs are the ground and foundation up
on " hio h passion is built But yet she VIII OBJ
serve them whose reputation gives value 10
their D. rsons and ond,ion, as If she would not
BIZ unwilling TO find something of entertainment
whereby 10 please herself pass her tune
But then her examinations going ever by way
of compulsion towards herself, they return UNI
satisfied. Though she be observed
not to be very careful in the public exercises of
our religion; yet agree not with heir opinion,
who hold her likely to abandon and change II;
not only for the faith and trust She hath in the
truth and goodness oil it, but 10 avoid the doing
that which she believes 10 be levlty, and de-
claratlon Of former ignorance.
She is so great lover Of variety, as that when
she may not otherwise express II, she will re-
move her own thoughts, II no, change her OPT
mons, even OF those persons that are no, least
considered by her; and when they have given
her this entertainment, let them settle again In
,helrformtr places with her She hath certain
high and ele> aled thoughts in which she is
pleased mosl; and they carry her mind above
any thing within her knowledge. She believed
nolnin., TO BIZ worthy OF her considerations
hese gallant fancics keep her in satisfaction
VII she IS alnne, where she will make some
thing worthy Of hei liking, since, IN the world,
she canno, 6nd any tning worthy OF her loving.
= She is In disposition TO he cholrric,
which she suppresses; not, perhaps, IN coh>i-
Iteration Of the persons that occasion il, but
upon belief ,ha, II is nnhandsnmr towards
herself; which vet, being thus COY, red, doth so
kindle and fire her W.T. as tina, In very few words
il says somewh hat SO extracted as that ii hath
sharpness, and strength, and taste. 10 disreli,h,
if not to kill the proudest hopes winch you can
because she cannoi suffer any condition but Of
plenty and glory, in watch, if She had no, an
assured and very eminen' kind Of being, she
would fly To the Other extreme OF rrticrdnr>>;
aud so rather obscure herself. than not t. be- her.
self; II being as natural to her as her htr, t.
maintain il in magu,hcrnce."
The Lady G. OF Rich ,rd>on is specimen Of
person who gives heislf arr; and, 10 our
taste, very disagreeahIf person She IS We
hate 10 see a woman who thinks II clever AMI
pleasan, to be always shaving IF The liferior-
~ Of her husband liz nine cases on, OF Ten,
her only superiority, after all, consists in her
having stock of impuGeuoe Al the res, of
her conduct is at war with good ,rnse Mos
OF The he' ONES of comedy are ladies in their
airs; and the Prec'euses of Alo-re take tnem.
selves for lh ir bettets on that account Lord
Byron has well hit off Ihe airs common 10 spnlt
young gen,lewomen,
"Haifpertness and half pout -
These are the pretty dissat,-6 d mouths (rot
unlike his own, by the by, in the picture nv II .r
luweN in which are 81 often 10 b. found ,ht
phrases Of "Nonsense"-' How tire somr'-
slow can you be so sillv," sc We do no,
write them with no,es of admiration. bee ausr