قراءة كتاب Oracles from the Poets A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room
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Oracles from the Poets A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room
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DIRECTIONS
FOR THE GAME OF THE ORACLES FROM THE POETS.
FOR A FORTUNE-TELLER WITH TWO PERSONS.
The person who holds the book asks, for instance, What is your character? The individual questioned selects any one of the sixty answers under that head, say No. 3, and the questioner reads aloud the answer No. 3, which will be the Oracle.
FOR A ROUND GAME.
Where there are more than six persons present, it will be well to select the following questions, as the game, connected with the discussions to which it will probably give rise, will be too protracted by introducing the whole, and the remaining questions are of a sentimental rather than personal class.
| What is your character?—Gentleman. | Page | 21 |
| What is your character?—Lady. | " | 35 |
| What is the personal appearance of your lady-love? | " | 51 |
| What is the personal appearance of him who loves you? | " | 69 |
| What is the character of your lady-love? | " | 83 |
| What is the character of him who loves you? | " | 97 |
| Where or what will be your place of residence? | " | 209 |
| What is your destiny? | " | 227 |
A questioner having been selected, he calls on each individual to choose a number under the question proposed, and reads each answer aloud as the number is mentioned. If the party agree to the arrangement, the author of the Oracle can be demanded by the questioner, and a forfeit paid in case of ignorance, or a premium given for a correct answer.
If the person whose Oracle is read cannot tell the author, any one of the party may be allowed a trial in turn, and receive the premium.
WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER?
GENTLEMAN.
All our knowledge is ourselves to know.
Pope.
Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us,
To see oursels as others see us;
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
And foolish notion!
Burns.
WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER?
GENTLEMAN.
You kiss not where you wish to kill,
You feign not love where most you hate,
You break no sleep to win your will,
You wait not at the mighty's gate.
Lord Vaux.
2. E'en your failings lean to virtue's side.
Goldsmith.
3. Polite, yet virtuous, you have brought away
The manners, not the morals of the day.
Cowper.
4. Thou art slow to science; the chart and letter'd page
Have in them no deep spell whereby thy spirit to engage;
But rather thou wouldst sail thy boat, or sound thy bugle-horn,
Or track the sportsman's triumph through the fields of waving corn,
Than o'er the ponderous histories of other ages bend,
Or dwell upon the sweetest page that ever poet penn'd.
Mrs. Norton.
5. A spider you may best be liken'd to,
Which creature is an adept, not alone
In workmanship of nice geometry,
But is beside a wary politician.
Taylor.
6. I know thee brave,—
A counsellor subtle, and a leader proved,—
With wisdom fitting for a king's right hand;
Firm in resolve, nor from thy purpose moved:
Then what lack'st thou to render thee beloved?
Thou'st wooed and won a gentle heart, and more,—
Hast