Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1829-08-20

solves to show herself abroad and her ,oi-
let is detestable. To what is this owing :
to the choice or assortment of colors
Thus, crimson is extremely handsome
at night, when it may be substituted for
rose color, which loses it charms by candle
light; no color whatever strips il so COM
pletely ofall its attractions. Pale yellow,
on the contrary, is often very handsome by
day, and is perfectly suited to people who
have fine carnation but at night it APP
pears dirty, and furnishes the lustrc of the
complexion, to which it is designed to add
brilIiancy. We could adduce MANY other
examples, but it would be difficult to spe-
city all the particular cases; for all these
efforts depend on different circumstances,
as we have already seen for instance, on
the complexion Of women, on the greater
or less vivacity Of their carnation, on their
stature, on the other colors employed in
their dress, &c. Isay on the other colors
employed in their dress, and insist on this
remark for any other particular color,
which alone or assorted with suitable CO.
Tors, would appear pleasing, is sometimes
rendered ridiculous, unbecoming or un-
graceful, by contrast with others.
Thus, sometimes female, who yester-
day appeared charming, with hat in an
elegant taste, discovers to-day that she's
no longer the same, though she has not
changed her head dress. The motamor-
phosis astonishes her; she finds fault, al
ternately, with her hat and figure. But,
dear madam, neither your figure nor your
hat is at all to blame, they have not under
gone the least change. But why did I
look so well yesterday ?--Yesterday, ma
dam, the color Of your dress perfectly a.
greed with that of your hat to-day new
dress forms a contrast so harsh as to pro-
luce an optical discord, as disagreeable to
The eye as a false chord in music is grating
to the ear. Put on the dress you wore yes.
terday, and cease to blame your hat or YOUR
charms, neither of which can be in fault.
The eloquent must study.-The labors
requisite to form the public speaker, are
by no means duly appreciated among US.
There is nothing like the ancient estima-
ton Of this work. An absurd idea pre-
walls among our scholars, that the finest
productions of the MIND are the fruits Of
hasty impulse, the unfoldings Of sudden
thought, the brief visitations Of a fortunate
hour or evening, the fashings of intuition,
or the gleamings of fancy. Genius is Of !
Or tho 81 to lightning from'the cloud,
kind Of 9% nspasgaS St W fssFs' finn H6
has made happy effort, he is next posses
sed with an absurd ambition to have III
thought that it cost him nothing. tie will
say, perhaps, that il was three hours
work. Now it is not crough'to maintain
hat nothing could be more injurious to
our youth than this way Of thinking: for
Inc truth is, that nothing can be more false. !
The mistake lies in conlounding the mere
Of thoughts or the manual
labor Of putting them on paper, the long
preparation Of mind, the settled
habits Of thought. 1t has taken but three
hours, perhaps, TO compose an admirable
piece Of poetry or fine speech but the
reflections Of three years,or OF thirty years,
NAV have been tending to that result. 1t
is a goodrule, no doubt, "to write with fu-
nv and correct with phlegm;" but man
canno, write with fury and write with sense
too, without much previous thought. He
may write with folly land that is often done.
He may imagine that he is writing finely,
because he is writing fast, and that his
sounding pen flies over an inspired page |;
and that is likely to result from the absurd
application of the maxim, that happy Of
forts are hasty ones Genius is thought,
is study, is application. The Two simple,
hut magic words which contain the secret
of Newton's greatness, according to his
own explanation, are "patient thought"
There is not more indispensable charac-
,erestic of genius, than good sense. 1t is
this that has given to the true works OF
genius. universal reception and immortal
fame. And here too, is indicated the rock
ON which thousands have split. Many
men have powerful imagination. but they
have not the patient thought" the good
sense requisite to control ii. They have
not learnt, in the very torrent. tempest,
and whirlwnd of passion, to acquire and
bepet the temperance that may give i
smoothness." We wish that we could see
an ANALYSIS of genius on these principles
tina, we could see unfolded all the previ'
Gus thought, the patient study the thorough
reflection, the fine discrimination, that are
necessary to produce even a page OF real
" fine writing. 1t would be useful les
SON. II would teach our aspiring youth, tina
n !. - AIxn.