The temple of fashion a poem Author:Samuel Johnson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: This Tafte, diiplay'd at large in choice of clothes, Shows equal influence in the choice of Beaux, Thofe neceflary implements of drefs ; If Fafhion deck them, Be... more »auty will carefs. Take the moft arrant Puppy, born and bred, Whofe brain is feather, and whofe heart is lead, Let him be vain, infenfible, abfurd, Fickle in thought, falfe to his plighted word, Or oath—(pardon me, pretty ones, for thefe May be the dear accompliihments that pleafe!) Let him be any thing, except a Clown, Stamp him with Famion, and the Fop goes down.. PART11 PART II. 'The danger of French Manners being introduced with French Fa/Jmns to the ruin of conjugal happinefs—Madan's Thelyphthora likely to be well received by Men of a libertine cajl—The indignity offered to the.Fair Sex by that publication—Its mijlaken principles of happinefs pointed out. THOU Tyrant Fashion, fpite of grace and cafe, Thine iron precepts bend us as they pleafe; Take ev'ry awkward, ev'ry hideous fhape, To charm at home, to mock us at the Cape, Mimic a monkey, perfonate a bear, To give God's image a genteeler air:. Thy magic hand conciliates all extremes, Folly's blind whims, and Frenzy's waking dreams Curfe on thefe Arts, or any Arts like thefe, Which, by diftorting Nature, dare to pleafe! When Franci,:, (refining on fome Gothic plan To dig.iifv tlic Brute, dilhonour Man) Mars Woman, gifted as flie is to pleaie The foul, and ev'ry fenfe with rapture feize; Diverts an Angel of her happieft dower, Her elegance, and taints the faireil Rower. Nor is the fever to the form confin'd ; Its fell contagion foftcns on the mind. The bleiled time may come—(Heav'n fpare our lives!) When married Men no longer mall have Wives ; Nor tafty Wives have Hufbands of their own, But be to all Mankind much better known; JVo Children...« less