Title:  The Diary of an Ennuyee

Author:  Anna Brownell Jameson

Release Date:  March 26, 2006 [EBook #18049]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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THE DIARY

OF

An Ennuyee.

A NEW EDITION.

By Mrs. Jameson,

Author of “Visits and sketches at home and abroad,”
Etc.  Etc.

Sad, solemn, soure, and full of fancies fraile,
She woxe:  yet wist she neither how nor why: 
She wist not, silly Mayd, what she did aile,
Yet wist she was not well at ease, perdie;
Yet thought it was not Love, but some Melancholie.

Spenser.

PARIS,

BAUDRY’S European library,

Sold also by Amyot, Rue de la paix; TRUCHY, Boulevard des ITALIENS;
Theophile Barrois, Jun., Rue Richelieu; LIBRAIRIE des ETRANGERS,
Rue NEUVE-saint-Augustin; and HEIDELOFF and CAMPE,
Rue Vivienne.

1836.

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DIARY OF AN ENNUYEE.[A]

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Calais, June 21.—­What young lady, travelling for the first time on the Continent, does not write a “Diary?” No sooner have we slept on the shores of France—­no sooner are we seated in the gay salon at Dessin’s, than we call, like Biddy Fudge, for “French pens and French ink,” and forth steps from its case the morocco-bound diary, regularly ruled and paged, with its patent Bramah lock and key, wherein we are to record and preserve all the striking, profound, and original observations—­the classical reminiscences—­the thread-bare raptures—­the poetical effusions—­in short, all the never-sufficiently-to-be-exhausted topics of sentiment and enthusiasm, which must necessarily suggest themselves while posting from Paris to Naples.

Verbiage, emptiness, and affectation!

Yes—­but what must I do, then, with my volume in green morocco?

Very true, I did not think of that.