A CLEAR fire, a clean ; ted le (no to ions, loved a good game at o take a one to make up a rubber: to t a card-table, but are indifferent o take it up and lay anotriflers are table. One of t. Of suc may be said, t t play at cards, but only play at playing at them.
Battle breed. Sested t and soul; and , save upon a striking emergency, table ner, a determined enemy. Sook, and gave, no concessions. Sed favours. S over in exacting tmost forfeiture. S a good fig and t. S ;like a dancer.quot; Se bolt uprigo see ours. All people itions: and I s .
I never in my life -- and I knele many of t years of it -- sa o play: or snuff a candle in t, till it , miscellaneous conversation during its process. As sically observed, cards aste in -century countenance, it tleman of a literary turn, o take a ter serious studies, in recreations of t kind! S o ion, to lig o to do, -- and s. S erwards -- over a book.
Pope e ed game of Ombre in t poem; and to explain to me agreed points it o differ from, tradrille. rations e and poignant; and I ance of to Mr. Bo I suppose too late to be inserted among es upon t author.
Quadrille, sen told me, eem. to allure young persons. tainty and quick sing of partners -- a tancy of ure of Spadille -- absurd as sly observed, in tocracy of y, so taking to ttractions of a Sans Prendre Vole, -- to triumpainly notingencies of ivation to tic. But , like quadrille, a feast of snatcion ime to form rooted friendso cultivate steady enmities. Sarted, capricious, and ever fluctuating alliances of tty eps of ttle Italian states, depicted by Macually cures and connexions; bitter foe, to-day, sugared darlings to-morroc t o teady, deep-rooted, rational, antipat Frencions.
A grave simplicity , like t most irrational of all pleas t a reasonable being can set in -- t and one sue of reference to tensions of to be a solecism; as pitiful an ambition at cards as alliteration is in auty, and looked deeper ts o distinguis ry in red jackets, t never o be marso take t is; and, in my mind, it of some appendages, e of y, may be venially, and even commendably allourn of t one suit alrumps ? inguis it? --
quot;But ty. Man is not a creature of pure reason -- fully appealed to. e see it in Roman Catries, o . -- You, yourself, ty collection of paintings -- but confess to me, ers in te-room, you ever felt your bosom glo delig all comparable to t you in your poo experience most evenings over a ment of t cards? -- tty antic s, like riump -- trasting deadly-killing sables -- ty of spades -- Pam in all his glory! --
quot;All t be dispensed eboard, t go on very ure-less. But ty of cards inguisripped of all t is imaginative in t degenerate into mere gambling. -- Imagine a dull deal board, or drum o spread tead of t nice verdant carpet (next to natures), fittest arena for tly combatants to play t jousts and turneys in ! -- Excely-turned ivory markers -- , unconscious of ting true application as test Ep turned out ttle stle bits of leators money) or ce!quot; -
to ion of my arguments on e topic t evening, I ed for t Sienna marble, er Plumer, h.
t ( value) I o confess a trutly taken ially vulgar game, I ing ial to it. Sily bring o pronounce quot;go quot; -- or quot;ts a go.quot; S an ungrammatical game. teased o forfeit a rubber (a five dollar stake), because s take advantage of turn-up knave, ;tremely genteel in t of self-denial. Saratle lewoman born.
Piquet s at try of terms -- suc -- t) of affectation. But games for tly cared for. Se, or square. S cards are : oo palpable. By t is too close a figators, it is not muctered. No looker on can be interested, except for a bet, and t is a mere affair of money; for your luck sympatically, or for your play. -- till every man, as in cribbage, league or alliance; or a rotation of petty and contradictory interests, a succession of less leagues, and not mucy infractions of tradrille. -- But in square games (s is possible to be attained in card-playing is accomplisives of profit o every species -- tter can be but very imperfectly enjoyed in tator is only feebly a participator. But ties in ators and principals too. tre to t ed. inence. abrality or some interest beyond its sproke of skill or fortune, not because a cold -- or even an interested bystander nesses it, but because your partner sympatingency. You riumped. tified; aking off to tter reconciled, to one in t close butcile feeling is iplying tomed to defend e pastime.
No inducement could ever prevail upon o play at any game, o tion, for notlety of is obvious, t cannot be glory. rational cause of exultation could it give to a man to turn up size ace a imes togetators, tery of a ickets one fortunate number -- and ure, except stupid , could it gratify to gain t number as many times successively, a prize ? -- ture of c played for money. S fooliss, under sucances. Games of pure skill tle to ake, tem of over-reacting of one mans , -- ion -- faculty rat anot at a revieless. -- S conceive a game ing tely infusion of cune. t c irring in tre, udes of Castles, and Knigly) irely misplaced and senseless. tests can in no instance ally form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (so say) ants.
to tors against cards, as nurturing tort, t man is a gaming animal. -- alrying to get tter in somet t cards: t cards are a temporary illusion; in trut play at being mig stake, yet, during tily concerned as take is cro of dream-fig battling, and little bloodsy means for disproportioned ends; quite as diverting, and a great deal more innoxious, t esteeming to be such.-
it deference to t on tters, I ts in my life, in t spirits, I sometimes call for t piquet for love -- Bridget Elia.
I grant t; but ooto put up ion,
ture, I am convinced, as sick w. -
I grant it is not t style of man -- I deprecate ttle -- s, alas! to whom I should apologise.
At sucimes, terms o, come in as someto get a tierce or a quatorze, to an inferior interest. those shadows of winning amuse me.
t last game I cousin (I capotted ell t miged for ever, t not to go on in t idle folly for ever. t o prepare tle lenitive to my foot, o apply after t muc s and I should be ever playing.