The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-08

are great, ugly, many headed beast. with a
great many ears which are long, hairy, tick
lish, movable, erect and never at rest.
"Look at your picture in Southey's Hex
smeters, that poem in which his laureated
Doctorship writes verses by the yard instead
OF the foot--he describes you as many
headed and monstrous.'
with numberiess faces,
Numberless beastial ears, erect 10 all rumors,
and restless,
A nd with numberless mouths which are hll'd
with lies, as with arrows
look at that Picture my Public!-It is
very like you!"-TEe Doctor.
SrYLEs.-"Syles may with more accu-
racy be classed, and for this purpose metals
might be used in literature as they are in
heraldry. We might speak Of the golden
style, the silver, the iron, the leaden, the
pinchbeck and the bronze.
''Others there are which cannot be brought
under any of these appellations. There is
the Cyclopean style, Of which Johnson is
the great example; the sparkling, or mica
cious, possessed by Hazlit, and much af
fected in reviews and magazines; the ole
aginous, in which Mr.. Charles Butler bears
the palm, or more appropriately the olive
branch: the fulminating-which is Walter
Landor's, whose conversation has been
compared to thunder and lightning; the i'm
penetrable-which is sometimes used by Mr..
Coleridgs; and the Jeremy Benthamite,
which cannot with propriety be distinguish
ed by any other name than one derived from
its unparalleled and mparallelable author
"There is the lean style, of which Ma
thaniel Lafdner and William Coke may be
held up as examples and there is the lar
ded one, exemplifed in Bishop Andrews,
and in Burton, the Anatomist Of Melan-
choly; Jeremy Taylor's is both fowery and
fruitful style; Harvey the Meditationist's
a weedy one. There are the hard and dry;
the weak and watery, the manly and woman
ly, the juvenile and the anile; the round and
the pointed; the fashey and the fiery; the
lucid and the opaque; the luminous and
the tenebrouS the continuous and the dis
jointed. The washy and the slap-dash are
both much in vogue. especially in maya
zines and reviews; 80 are the barbed and
vsnomed. The High-Slung style is exhibi.
ted in the Court Journal and in Mr.. Col
burns novels; the Low-Slang in Tom and
Jerry Bells Life in London, and most
magazines, those especially which are Of
most pTetentions.
"The fiatulent style, the feverish, the
aguish, and the atrabilious are all as com.
mon as the diseases OF body from which
they take their name, and of mind in which
they originate; and not less common than
either is the dyspeptic style, proceeding from
weakness in the digestive faculty. "--B.
UaLHEss.-"As to ugliness, not only
in this respect do we make large allowan-
ces for ourselves, but our friends make large
allowances for US also. Some one praised
Palisson to Madame de Ssvinge for the ele-
gance Of his manners the magnanimity, the
rectitude and other virtues which he ought
TO have possessed; he biea, she replied,
pour moi je ne cosnois que sa laideur !;
qW'oR me le dedoubls doinc. Wilkes, VINO
pretended as little TO beauty, as he did to
public virtue, when ne was of the stage,
used to say, that in winning the good gra-
ces OF lady there was not more than three
days difference between himself and the
handsomest man in England. One of his
female partisans praised him for his agreea-
bic person, and being reminded Of his
she replied indignantly, that it
was not more than gentleman ought to
squirt. So lightly has Madame de Vile
dieu observed that
EN- mile occasions l'amour a sceu prouyer
Q ne tout deyient pour luy matiere a sympathie,
Qaand il fait tant que den vouloir trouver.'
be no doubt spoke sincerely, according to
the light therein, in the obliquity Of her in
lellectlal eyesght, she beheld him. Just
as that prince OF republican and unbeliev
ing bigOts, Thomas HOLES, said Of the same
person, ] am sorry for the irregularities of
they are however only as spots in
he sun! ut is the weakness Of the many
says once noted Journalist, that when
hey have taken fancy to man, or to
he name Of a man, they take fancy even
70 his lailings.' But there must have been
no ordinary charm in the manners OF John
Wilkes, who in one interview overcame
Iohnson's well-founded and vehement dis
ike. The good-nature Of his countenance,
and its vivacity and cleverness, made its
physical ugliness be overlooked and proba-
bly, his cast of the eye, which was a squirt
of the first water, seemed only peculiarly
which gave effect to the sallies of his wit. "
ID.
A SQuNr.-"Squinting, according to a
French writer, is not unpleasing. when il is
not in excess. He is probably right in this
A slight obliquity Of vision
sometimes gives an archness OF expression,
and always adds to the countenance pecu.
iarity, which. when the countenance has
,nce become agreeable to the beholder,
lenders it more 30. But when the eye balls
-ecede from each other to the outer verge OF
heir orbits, or approach so closely that MOTH
ng but the Intervention Of the nose seems
% prevent their meeting, sense of distor-
ion is produced, and consequently Of pain.
n n des sens. says Vignaul Marville.
'qui ne sauroient regarder des touches sans
IN sentir quelque douleur aux yeux. Je
'uis des ceux-la." This is because the defor-
nifty is catching, which it is well known to
De in children; the tendency to imitation is
EASILY excited in highly sensitive frame
rs in them; and the pain felt in the eyes
gives warning that this action, which is safe
,nly while it is unconscious and unobserved,
S in danger Of being deranged.
GA cast Of the eye Ia Montmorency
was much admired at the Court of Louis