THE BAROUCHE DRIVER AND HIS WIFE : A TALE FOR HAUT TON. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. By CHARLES SEDLEY, Esq. Author of "The Infidel Mother," "The Mask of Fashion," THE SECOND EDITION. Neither the constitution, nor the passions, are the first seducers of youth- But opinions and manners. J. J. ROUSSEAU. LONDON: Printed by D. N. SHURY, Berwick Street, Soho, FOR J. F. HUGHES, WIGMORE STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. THE BAROUCHE DRIVER AND HIS WIFE. IN days of yore, the art of charioteering was among the emulative exercises of a warlike youth. Public exhibitions of skill were celebrated on the public courses, and the applause of millions crowned the victor with honour. * Now, the emulative genius of the age is to drive helter skelter through the streets, to the imminent danger of children, and the great annoyance of * Charioteering was one among the Olympic games, held every fifth year at Olympia, in honour of Jupiter Olympius, and has been celebrated by the Greek poets in all the sublimity of verse. An English poet-less sublimely, I confess thus sings the honours of a modern whip: What can little T. O. do? Why, drive a phaeton and two. Can little T. O. do no more? Yes-drive a phaeton and four. |