32 THE TATLER. N° 4. "fhew me a Treatife he had writ, which he "called, The whole Art of Life; or, The "Introduction to great Men, illuftrated in a "Pack of Cards.' But, being a novice at "all manner of play, I declined the offer. "Another advised me, for want of money, to fet up my coach, and practife phyfic; but, "having been bred a scholar, I feared I should "not fucceed that way neither, therefore re"folved to go on in my prefent project. But you are to understand, that I shall not pre"tend to raise a credit to this work upon the 66 66 weight of my politic News only, but, as my Latin fentence in the title-page informs you, fhall take any thing that offers for the fubject "of my difcourfe*. Thus new perfons, as well "as new things, are to come under my confi"deration; as when a Toaft or Wit is first pro"nounced fuch, you fhall have the freshest ad"vice of their preferment, from me, with a "defcription of the Beauty's manners, and the Wit's ftyle; as alfo in whofe places they are "advanced. For this town is never good-na"tured enough to raife one without depreffing "another. But it is my defign to avoid faying ན་ any thing of any perfon, which ought juftly "to displease; but fhall endeavour, by the va "riety of the matter and ftyle, to give enter"tainment for men of pleasure, without of"fence to thofe of bufinefs." *STEELE feems to intend this as a tranflation of the motto from Juvenal, prefixed to the papers in this volume. White's White's Chocolate-houfe, April 18, ALL hearts at prefent pant for two, Ladies only, who have for fome time engroffed the dominion of the town. They are indeed both exceeding charming, but differ very much in their excellences. The beauty of Clariffa * is foft, that of Chloe + piercing. When your look at Clariffa, you fee the most exact har mony of feature, complexion, and shape; you find in Chloe nothing extraordinary in any one of thofe particulars, but the whole woman irrefiftible: Clariffa looks languifhing; Chloe killing Clariffa never fails of gaining adiniration; Chloe of moving defire. The gazers at Clariffa are at first unconcerned, as if they were observing a fine picture. They who be hold Chloe, at the first glance difcover trans port, as if they met their dearest friend. These different perfections are fuitably represented by the last great painter Italy has fent us, Mr. JERVAS . Clariffa is by that fkilful hand placed in a manner that looks artless, and innocent of the torments she gives; Chloe is drawn with *CLARISSA is mentioned again, TAT. No 5. + CHLOE. Ibid. N° 7. See alfo TAT. No 31. The Author here celebrates two beauties of thofe times, whofe real names the Editor has not been able to recover; of perhaps he only remarks on two pictures of JERVAS [the inftructor and intimate friend of POPE], whom he certainly meant to recommend, and very juftly, as an excellent Painter. See POPE'S Works, vol. V. passim. VOL. I. Ꭰ a live a liveliness that fhews fhe is confcious of, but not affected with, her perfections. Clariffa is a fhepherdefs, Chloe a country girl. Imuft own, the defign of Chloe's picture fhows, to me, great Mastery in the Painter; for nothing could be better imagined than the dress he has given her of a ftraw-hat and a ribbon, to reprefent that fort of beauty which enters the heart with a certain familiarity, and cheats it into a belief that it has received a lover as well as an object of love. The force of their different beauties is feen alfo in the effects it makes on their Lovers. The admirers of Chloe are eternally gay and well-pleased: thofe of Clariffa melancholy and thoughtful. And as this paffion always changes the natural man into a quite different creature from what he was before, the love of Chloe that of Clariffa, Madmen. kind juft now in this room. whiftles, laughs, fings, and cuts capers, for love of Chloe. Another has just now writ three lines to Clariffa, then taken a turn in the garden, then came back again, then tore his fragment, then called for fome chocolate, then went away without it. makes Coxcombs; There were of each Here was one that Chloe has fo many admirers in the house at prefent, that there is too much noife to proceed in my narration; fo that the progress of the loves of Clariffa and Chloe, together with the bottles that are drunk each night for the one, and the many fighs which are uttered, and fongs fongs written on the other, must be our subject on future occafions. Will's Coffee-house, April 18. Letters from the Hay-market inform us, that on Saturday night laft the Opera of Pyrrhus and Demetrius was performed with great applaufe. This intelligence is not very acceptable to us friends of the theatre; for the ftage being an entertainment of the reafon and all our faculties, this way of being pleased with the fufpence of them for three hours together, and being given up to the fhallow fatisfaction of the eyes and ears only, feems to arife rather from the degeneracy of our understanding, than an improvement of our diverfions. That the understanding has no part in the pleasure is evident, from what these letters very pofitively affert, to wit, that a great part of the performance was done in Italian: and a great critic fell into fits in the gallery, at feeing, not only Time and Place, but Languages and Nations confused in the most incorrigible manner. His fpleen is fo extremely moved on this occafion, See No 1. and No. 12. + By OWEN M'SWINEY, 4to, 1709. It is a translation from the Italian of SCARLATTI, and was performed at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market, which was built for the reprefentation of Operas, introduced into England about the beginning of the preceding reign. The Operas were at first in Italian, and the famous NICOLINI was the principal Performer in them. See TAT. Nos 1. 20. D 2 that that he is going to publish a treatise against Operas, which, he thinks, have already inclined us to thoughts of peace, and, if tolerated, muft infallibly difpirit us from carrying on the war. He has communicated his fcheme to the whole room, and declared in what manner things of this kind were first introduced. He lias upon this occafion confidered the nature of Sounds in general, and made a very elaborate digreffion upon the London Cries, wherein he has fhown from reafon and philofophy, why oyfters are cried, card-matches fung, and turneps and all other vegetables neither cried, fung, nor faid, but fold, with an accent and tone neither natural to man nor beaft. This piece feems to be taken from the model of that excellent difcourfe of Mrs. MANLY the fchoolmiftrefs, concerning famplers. Advices from the upper end of Piccadilly fay, that MayFair is utterly abolifhed; and we hear Mr. PENKETHMAN has removed his ingenious com See, in Dr. KING's Works, vol. II. 8vo. edit. 1776," An "Effay on the invention of Samplers, by Mrs. Arabella Manly, "Schoolmiftrefs at Hackney." See the prefentment of May Fair by the Grand Jury of Weftminster, an. 1708, in Srow's Survey, &c. edit. 6. 1755. vol. 11. p. 178. It was entirely abolished in the year 1709; Shepherd's Market, near Curzon-Street, was built on the fpot where it was held, and the furrounding district is ftyled MayFair. The facetious Mr. PENKETHMAN formed himself upon LEIGH, whofe pleafant extravagances were all the flowers of |