lebrity. She was a fine stage-figure, and her VIDELO-697 Diggs & countenance exhibited the most expressive beauty and intelligence. I thought her divine, and was smitten to the heart; nor was my passion without reason, for it is impossible to conceive any thing more ravishingly affecting than her impassioned accents, or so irresistible as the imploring pathos of her

eyes. All the scene to me was absorbed in

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that elegant creature-I saw nothing but sonur

her beauty, I heard but only her voice.

When I returned home, I could think but of

Patetica -she floated baltus rated in my dreams invested

with the radiance of a goddess, and when I

awoke, it was only to remember some delightful accent of her eloquence, or some glances ས་སམ་ 9མ འ༤་ ༤་པ་ of the beautiful spirit that resided in her eyes. Night after night I went to the theatre;-all the fiction of the performance vanished, and she appeared to me the heroine that she only personated.

tempt to embody my feelings in a sonnet. The ass can bray as tunefully as my muse; but I thought it worthy of the divine Patetica, and enclosed a copy, subscribed with my name and address. The lovely object of my sighs and adoration replied to me in a note filled with the most complimentary commendations, and she concluded with informing me of the night appointed for her benefit, to which she requested my patronage. This turned my head, I bought as many tickets as my pocket-money would allow,I sold them among my acquaintance, and again bought more, and thus filled the house with all the sprucest beardless clerks in Ve

At the conclusion of the play I went behind the scenes, confident in the greatness of the patronage I had procured for Patetica. I had never yet, by any accident, seen her off the stage, and the stage, in my young enthusiasm, had hitherto seemed the focus of

all that was magnificent in art and sublime in nature; but when I beheld the heroes and heroines,—the tattered, haggard, patched, and painted progeny of Thespis, as far in appearance below the children of daylight as the despicable daubing of their scenery was inferior to the landscapes of nature,-I was seized with a strange qualm of disgust;-I looked around among the hideous gang, but could see nothing of the divine Patetica; at last, after some time, I discovered an ugly, wide-eyed, coarse trull, on very familiar terms with the bill-sticker of the establishment, for the brute was pawing her cheek. In this hideous fury I at last discovered my goddess. Had I been plunged into a mixture of every odious taste and smell that the apothecary can compound with the aid of all his gallipots, the sensation would have been pleasant compared to what I suffered at that discovery.

I was thus cured of my first love, and I

"That wretch," exclaimed the gentle fair, "that ugly, staring wretch, Patetica; and the creature is very well known to be," she added, with a captivating smile," what I am only suspected to have been."

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I could not, I must confess, see very clearly in what manner the circumstance of Patetica having made a faux-pas could affect the merits of Belletta as an actress; but she said it had; and she looked at me with such languishing eyes, that I could not but believe it true. In a word, before we had conversed many minutes, she took me by the arm with the ease of an old acquaintance, and I was soon persuaded that the amiable Belletta was one of the worst-used actresses in the world; and as I had exerted myself in behalf of Patetica, I resolved to redoub my endeavours for the beautiful" victim of a faction;" but when I attempted to interest my companions in her favour, assuring them that she was truly a most incomparable