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"The knight of arts and industry, And his achievements fair. " THOMSON'S _Castle of Indolence: Explanatory Verse to Canto II._
In a popular and respectable, but not very fashionable quartier in Paris, and in the tolerably broad and effective locale of the Rue -- -- , there might be seen, at the time I now treat of, a curious-looking building, that jutted out semicircularly from the neighbouring shops, with plaster pilasters and compo ornaments. The _virtuosi_ of the _quartier_ had discovered that the building was constructed in imitation of an ancient temple in Rome; this erection, then fresh and new, reached only to the _entresol_. The pilasters were painted light green and gilded in the cornices, while, surmounting the architrave, were three little statues -- one held a torch, another a bow, and a third a bag; they were therefore rumoured, I know not with what justice, to be the artistical representatives of Hymen, Cupid and Fortune.