Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-04-28
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CLERICAL DANCING MASTER.

The following anecdote Of Edward Young.
the author of the Night Thoughts, is told in
the last lumber of the London METROPOLITAN
Magazine
When Young left the university he was a
master Of arts, and brought away with him a
vast stock of Greek and Latin. But the fire
of a fine imagination was not extinguished I'M
der the heavier acquisition of his scholastic
pursuits its cirida Uis and enthusiasm had
survived. and when he began the world, his
heart was new and peculiarly susceptible to
each impression Thus constituted, a person
will not 20 far without meeting Love on his
road and Young soon discovered it in the
charming smile and piquant grace of Ann
Bowley, to whom he offered a timid homage,
which was accepted without hesitation. The
society in which his fair one moved, necessa-
My became the centre of his universe, and
the ladies that composed it, possessed in him
a most devoted and assiduous cavalier.
One fine summer evening he escorted them
to the river side, not then so thickly built up
on as now. 1t was the middle ofsummer, and
the hour was that delightful one when the
wings IF the breeze bring GOODNESS with them
TO refresh all nature, which was laneuid and
7 exhausted by the he II of one OF those oppres-
siye DAYS which ever and anon give us a taste
oft the fervid hours of "A tolrid cline, Buslle
and activity prevailed around the river was
instinct with life and motion, and a thousand
boats, CALAMITY equipped and manned, furrow-
ed its broad bosom a thousand confused
sounds loated in the air, and the John Bull
of the olden time seemed to be in the full en-
joyment Of his proyerbi ii merrinenr-that pic
turesque John Bull of the second quarter of
the eighteenth century, il cooked hat and la
ce cravat, embroidered and brighi-cnl0red
coat, knee brooches, and high qusrterel shoes.
Young enjoyed the scene with a poets eve,
aud found ample mater als fi the Indulgence
oil tbs stiiriral turn, when one of the ladies'
proposed that they should all 90 to Vauxhall.
as II was a public night. The proposition wac
I~e1elred with acclaim luon, aud A wherry was
soon ~ireighted with ,he loyous complny, By
way of amusing his friends, Yapnp drew from
his pocket q iiuie, on which he ekcelled, and
his notes were 50 perfect that a crowd of boats
SOFA gathered around among Others was one
hllei with yOnng officers, which pulled hasil-
" up, and took a stiiiDn alongside thai of the
musician. As Young only played FOR the
Qualification ol his comPlny anI himself, he
dad not choose 10 Oe maze a public spectacle :
80 he soon ceased. and returned his flute into
lis case. One Of the ufhcers took offence al
this, AMI thinking HAT his gaze was sure with
a Young man IA a clereyman,s dress. aud
whose aspect was anything but IN ritual. lie
orlered tie player To produce lis flute and be-
gtn anew. Young saruggel las shoulders
al this piece Of imperinere, bun took no fur
tier notice of /, It was followed by threats
and curses. which had no greater effect upon
lie person aaains, whom they were directed.
The officer who was very angry ms orders
were d~iso'eyed aud his menares despised, d.
necied Ia ro~ets Ia close will the boat Of The
refractory musician, and swore he would fling
him INTO the Ihames. unless he Immediately
began playing. Tho alarm Of the ladies' was
inieDse, snd seeing that The soldier as al.u,
putting his threats IN execution. they in,reaied
Young to yield 10 the exigency bui the indio j.
aant hp,isi still resisted.
'EdwsId " exclaimed a soft voice athis side,
will you DO nothing 70 Oblge me-