We are informed by Lady Pennon of 'the most amusing description of the first impressions of a pretty English simpleton in Paris'; and here is an opportunity for ludicrous contrast of the French and English styles of pushing flatteries--'piping to the charmed animal,' as Mrs.Warwick terms it in another place: but Lady Pennon was acquainted with the silly woman of the piece, and found her amusement in the 'wonderful truth' of that representation.
Diarists of amusing passages are under an obligation to paint us a realistic revival of the time, or we miss the relish.

The odour of the roast, and more, a slice of it is required, unless the humorous thing be preternaturally spirited to walk the earth as one immortal among a number less numerous than the mythic Gods.

'He gives good dinners,' a candid old critic said, when asked how it was that he could praise a certain poet.

In an island of chills and fogs, coelum crebris imbribus ac nebulis foedum, the comic and other perceptions are dependent on the stirring of the gastric juices.

And such a revival by any of us would be impolitic, were it a possible attempt, before our systems shall have been fortified by philosophy.