The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-11-15
THE M1sERIEs OLA Beauty DEFAcED.

and whom the sudden blast of disease wrinkles in her
bloom, is indeed sufficiently caamitous She is at
once deprived Of all that gave her eminence power,
of all that eated her prde,or animated her activity
all that filled her days with pleasure, and her nights
with hope all that gave gadness the present hour,
or frightened her prospects of futurity Ii is per-
haps not in the power of man whose attention has
been divided by diversity of pursuits, and who has not
been accustomed to derive from others much of his
happiness, to image himself such helpless destitu-
ton such dismal inanity. Every object OF pleasing
contemplation is at snatched away, and the soul
finds every receptacle Of ideas empty, or filled only
with the memory of JOYS that can return no more-
All is gloomy privaon, or impoent desire; the fac
ulties Of anticipation slumber in dependency, the
powers of pleasure mltiny for employment. n ,r 81.
was SO little able to find entertainment for myself,
that forced in short time to venture abroad,
the solitary savage driven by hunger from his cav
ern entered with all the humility Of disgrace into
assemblies, where lhad lately sparled with gaety, and
lowered with triumph. | not wholly without
hope that de ectien had misrepresened me to myself
and that the remains of my former face might yet
have attraction and influence but the first cir
Gle of visits convinced me, that my reign at
end that life and death We're no longer in my hands
that was more to practice the glance of command
or the frown of prohibition to receive the tribute Of
sighs and praises, be sooed with the gentle muir
murs of amorous tmidity. Ny opinion was now UNI
heard and my proposals were unTegarded the
rowness Of my knowledge, and the meanness of my
sentiments, were easily discovered, when the eyes
no longer engaged against the Judgment and
it Observed by those who had formerly been char
med with my vivacous oquacity that my understand
ing impaired as well as my face and that was no
longer qualified to fill place in any company but
party at cards.
1t is scarcely to be imagined how soon the mind
sinks to level with the condition I, who had long
considered all who approached vassals condemn
ed to regulate their pleasures by my eyes, and harass
their inventions for my entertainment was in less than
three weeks reduced to receive ticket with profess
sions of obligation to catch with eagerness at com
pliment; and to watch with all the anxousness of
dependence, lest any little civlty that was paid me
should pass unacknowledged
Though the negligence of the men was not very
pleasing when compared with vows and alteration vet
it was far more supportabe than the nsoence of nv
own sex. For the first ten months after my return in
to the world, never entered single house in which
the memory of my downfall not revived At one
place was congratulated my escape with life at
another heard of the benefits of early incubation
by some have been told in expresses terms, that am
not yet without my charms others have whispered at
my entrance, This is the celebrated beauty One
told me of wash that would smooth the skin and
another offered me her chair that might not front the
light. Some soothed me with the observation that
none can tell how soon my may be her own and
some thought 1t proper to receive me with moumfu
tenderness, formal coincidence and consoatory blan
dishments.
Thus was every day harassed with all the strata