Romantic Professions

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Excerpt from Romantic Professions: And Other PapersCountrywomen indulge a more fastidious fancy than their sisters in less democratic lands. It is lamentable, indeed, when you come to re¿ect on it, how large a proportion Of useful and respectable callings falls under the ban Of romance. What poet or romancer ever made his first lover, for example, a bailiff or a beadle? Yet bailiffs and beadles are men and brothers. They may do their Often-times dangerous duty with the dash Of a Rupert or the cool courage Of a Cromwell, yet they are frankly impossible as heroes of romance. De Quincey makes a remark somewhere to the effect that one would not be inclined to think highly Of a man who, in the absence Of predisposing circumstances, deliberately and for the love Of the business decided to be a butcher Yet butchers are husbands and fathers, and have blood in their veins as well as on their aprons. As a matter Of statistics, I suppose hardly a day passes but some solicitor falls in love, yet no court Of love or literature will give him audience as a lover, or take cognisance of his pleadings. The breast of the stock.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.