Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-10-26
Nv love for Hernia

aye need with word define,
The love which iightened DER her face
Thst Aade her glance, glance divine
Fresh caught f,om Heaven it's native place"
All my old attachments for another, were revived IN
Angelica. Other suffers discarded. was smiled
upon--assured of success, and once became myself
again"
How is it that the corpse dplomatque Of Europe, is
here composed of gay Loharios-the very nower OF
chivalry 4" So far as my observation extends, the
finest specimens of the human race, OF which t.e old
world can boast, are her attaches in America No won
der that the gddy heads of charming heiress are
turned by them. One Of the craft shall long remem-
Der. -,
lie wasa man as dusky Spapiard-
Sun burnt with travel yet portly figure;
Though colored, as il were, within LANYARD
lie person both OF sense and vigor"
He aperfect pattern OF gentleman too ard TOOK
amazingly We became acquainted at Astors and by
Angelicas request introduced him
"Oh Ingrattude, thou marbo-heared fend"
Can you believe In few weeks he supplanted nae
they were married, and hapPy-I became miserable
and misanthropic.
With me. however, grief soon wears itself away, and
the failure of Angelica father after her union with
Baron Rumbulno, served to reconcile me 70 my loss.
knew that he disappointed at any rate.
Wellp' said | to myself, experience has taught
a lesson at last. Catch me sowing my affections
again where nought but thorns are to be reaped re-
solved estrange myself from the world and to cult
a for ccbacy-but how feeble are our reso-
lutons. Man
.sResoves and e-resolves and dies the same"
BY the time that Angelica became as "women wish to
ing however those circles in which the influence OF
nouaches predomnated. now detest all animals with
these furious appendages-I even hate cat.
An intimacy grew up between myself and a most
seraphic creature whom we will style Amelia This
intimacy gradually assumed the form OF devoted friend
ship and finally deepened into attachment still sron
ger. found myself wound up in the spell OF the en-
chantress, when too late escape Amelia was per.
feet Venus Her tall straight FORM symmetry itself
Grace in her steps, and every look was dignity
and love-
"--she, midst the gay worlds hum,
Was the queen bee-he glass of all that's fair; -
Whose charms made all men speak, and women dumb"
She accomplished, too, and had travelled. To
me, she the world. was ever by her side-accom-
panied her Long Island during the heat OF summer
and hung upon her footsteps whithersoever she went
Her father a merchant of wealth, occupying pm
lace and standing high in the worlds estimation. Anne
liza " sole daughter of his rouse and heart'-hs
only child, and what still more charming-a spoat
child Here 'nsastaces grinned defiance at me- and
felt Future crosses had made me distrustfo
yet how could longer doubt after wing displaced sue
cessively the of wealthy Domcde--a doctor cele
brated for his requirements English dtsttngue-a
some son of a rich Knickerbocker. felt that
loved in return-grew vain-ofered myself-and was
accepted
"Thus human reason, ever confident,
Holds Its sde-half erring and half right
Not tutord by sweet humility
That else might safely steer"
1t in July last that an Argossy arrived from In
dia" and with it a stout middle aged, foegnlookng
man, with black whiskers bull neck, and hard fea-
He evidently voluptuary, and what Byron
would call
"A Hebrew libertine whose moral worth and glory
Was ROBBED IN mystery for no one knew his story
have said he foreign aspect To me, even
Philadelphia is foreigner amongst the bellies of Go
than. The blast which FRUSTRATED commerce in
1884, swept away the fortune of Edward by this
we shall christen him. He wandered abroad in the
world like the hero Of Salathiel;' and although he
had the affections Of Amelia, and they pledg-
ed, his form and features, during absence, gradually
faded from her memory.
Edward, as stated returned last summer while
in the zenith Of favor with Amelia Misfortune had
bunted the delicacy Of his feelings, and foreign inter
course invested him with a confidence amounting to
efrontery.
To repair his shattered fortunes he resolved, mot
withstanding my acknowledged claims) upon the pos
session Of the doveeyed girl The products Of foreign
climes laid her feet and the curiosities Of Chi
ma were spread in prsuson before her parents Amelia
wavered al FIRST but finally lin spite Of my imploring
looks and her preferred faith) more returned to
her first love-" Yes with with AL his sins green
upon him. she threw herself into his and they
now about TO be united forever. "Fray, thy name is
woman Is il not wonderful that with knowledge
ofits effects still willing drain the poisoned
cup and that confdng will court the hurricane
which threatens her, in preference to haven oil safety
aThus Nature, with aitribate most strange
with fs.en.,ic.s dr. dread, yet irresistible
| Some one has sung No iend like woman, earth
discovers" Ihave found her my direst enemy. Mark
the interesting pair who daily seen arm and arm
upon tho pane OF Rsgenseet-sand upon the piaz.
"a at Burnams fair day, and mark them airing to.
geher in his splendid currice. Look into Wall street
church upon Sunday, and observe them reclining toge
Their in the cushioned pew-look at this as do and
then tell me whether have been befrended by the
fair "Oh how bitter thing it is to look into hsppi
ness through another mans eyes"
Dear Bennett, If what have detailed above be not
sufficient apology for this paper, then am cropping in
but IT, the contrary, excite you TO take
an interest in q matter which deeply concerns
tyre bachelors then have not written in vain. My
course is marked out but it is for the guidance Of 9TH
ers that these essays will be composed Perdion catch
all frts and inieropers, sayl Cupid may continue TO
entcc me, but have my answer at hand-"Get thee
behind me, Satan"
What have myself endured prompts the following
piece of advice which record for the benefit OF
the uninitiaed. In affair OF the heart antici
pate success You amongst quicksands the moment
YOU embark upon cruise Of love- and ten to but
what wreck OF affection Is the reward of your emerty
How much would the misery Of this world be in
creased were we permitted dive into futury l-how
few Of us would think it worth their while continue
the journey The life Of is pilgrimage in error
and in darkness The igns afsrs that he always pur-
sues always deceives him-yet he is warned in vain
Al the moment Of disappointment resolvessecs an
other and pursues again. The fruit is turned to ashes
in his mouth, at the fanced moment Of enjoyment
Warning succeeds warning disappointment is followed
up by disappointment. Every grey hair in his he ad
useless experience Still he continues spurred on by
every thing in the pursu, Of nothing
until he stumblcs into his grave and all 10 over.