The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-08-08
especially If it be ofan imaginative cllarac-
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lis s.FHhyS al d1diT Oh pFOui8iOuS HOHicuts
inhis estimation. The lover,4who hears |
MS Ms fslter out 6 Yes, 2 when he tear
ed she was going to say "No;'' tho father
wno sees in his darling first-born the reflec-
ton Of himself, even to the snub-nose and
unquestionable squint; the hungry leader of
opposition, who finds himself suddenly trans
ported from the comfortlcss region on the |
wrong side Of the speaker to the Canaan of
the Treasury Bench, flowing with milk and
honey; the turtle shaped alderman who, on
the glorious day of his metamorphosis into |
lord mayor, hears his health drank and his
virtues landed at his own table by real first
minister Of the crown; they, even in the
height of their ecstacy, feel no more intense
qualification than does the young, unsophis-
lticated author on the success of his first lit
erary enterprise. But how changed the
scene, when, the gloss ofnovel.y worn off,
he takes to writing as task The instant
lcompostion becomes a matter of necessity,
| it ceases to bea pleasure Fancy flags, end
must be goaded onward like an u lwilling
steed; invention, that once answered readily
to ones bidding, stands coldly aloof; the fine
edge of feeling grows dull; thought refuses
longer to soar, but creeps tamely instead,
along the dead flats of common place; and
the mere act Of s,ringing sentences together
comes to be most thankless and irksome
drudgery. Charles, however, had not yet
reached this. Atpresent he was in the hon.
ey-moon of authorship.
| After strolling about some time with his
Cambridge friend, Charles went back to his
chambers, where he occupied himself till
the dinner hour in perusing SCOTS splendid
romance of Old Mortality; and in the eve
ming, which set in wet and stormy, he drew
forth from its modest hiding-place his last
remaining bottle of wine, losed his shutters,
wheeled his sofa round to the fire, which he
coaxed and fed till it blazcd like furnace,
and then, in the true spirit of Luxurious
| idleness,' which Thompson has SO well de-
lscribed, allowed his skittish fancy to run ri
OF, and, rapt in delicious revery began bull
| ing castle after castle in the air, whose inn
posing splendor increased in exact proper
ton to his potations. -,
1Luckly fellow that am" mentally ex-
claimed this sanguine day-dreamer, as his
1eyes fell upon the heap of bank notes which
lay close beside him on the table; sshere are
the fruitful seeds from which am destined
soon TO reap rich harvest of wealth and
fame! The sum now in my possession will
afford a moderate competence till l have
brought my next literary production to a
close, when, of course, my means will be ex-
4 tended; for i'll get three hundred pounds for
my first work, it is as clear as the sun at
noon-day that for my second, which will be
twice as good, and therefore twice as popu-
lar, shall get twice or prehaps thrice the
lsum. Then, who SO fairly on the road to
J fame as I? My second flight offancy being
successful, my third will further increase
} my renown, when public curiosity will be
lstrongly excited to know who aad what
am. Mysterious surnses will be set aaoat
respecting my identity. The press will
team with ssau,hentic particulars" of my
birth, parentagc, and education; this jour-
& nal asserting son authority that am Sir
| Morgan O'Doher;y; another, that am a
: lyoung Irishman who withhold my name for
, the present, in consequence ofhaving killed
: my uncle in duel; and third that am no
less parsonage than the President of the
J Noctes! At last the whole mighty truth will
be revealed, and an agi,ated world be calm
ed by the appearance ofmy name in the IL
J tie page of my fourth historical romance
From this eventful period | become the
: leading lion of the day. My best witticisms
, viii be repeated at every table, and, under
, 1.-THE head of"Meredith's last,n circulated in
, every journal; my likeness taken by an en-
| incnt artist, will be exhibited in every pub
, lisher's shop window; great book sellers
! Ewill contend for the honor of my patronage
invitations to dinners, balls, and CONVERSE
, | ziones, will pour in hour by hour throughout
] the season; when enter drawing-room, a
/ whisper will go round, especially among the
, ladies, of g there he is! What dear crea.
! ture!-how interesting he looksl' and al
Ilength the general enthusiasm will reach
such n height that one night as lam in the
t act Of quitting a .conversazione, one Of the
i most ardentof my male admirers, anxious
to possess some memorial of me; will walk
Fl off with my best hat and coat, just as liter
!, ary enthusiast absconded last sutumn with
81 Christopher North's celebrated sporting
j. jacket. ss 80
] sand what will be the result of all hi.
j enviable notorietys. Can 1 doubt9 No.
: The sunny 6,tnsc lies spread cont before
y me like map. a beautiful young girl o
: rank and fortune, fair as q water-lily, viii
pale Grccian face, slender figure, remark
! liable for its symmetry, and foot SO exquisite
Il " and aristocratically small as to be hardly
! Ivisible except through miscToacope -thi'
,lrefned, graceful and sylph-like creature, az
: ltracted BY the blaze Of my reputation, vii
S seize the favorable opportunity Of my being
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