Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room — John Shaqi
Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room
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Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room
Amusements; Fortune-telling; Quotations, English
What is your character?--Gentleman. Page 21
What is your character?--Lady. " 35
What is the personal appearance of your lady-love? " 51
What is the personal appearance of him who loves
you? " 69
What is the character of your lady-love? " 83
What is the character of him who loves you? " 97
What season of the year do you love? " 111
What hour do you love? " 129
What musical sounds do you love? " 147
What is your favorite flower? " 161
What gratifies your taste or affections? " 175
For what have you a distaste or aversion? " 193
Where or what will be your residence? " 209
What is your destiny? " 227
DIRECTIONS
FOR THE GAME OF THE ORACLES FROM THE POETS.
FOR A FORTUNE-TELLER WITH TWO PERSONS.
The person who holds the book asks, for instance, What is your
character? The individual questioned selects any one of the sixty
answers under that head, say No. 3, and the questioner reads aloud
the answer No. 3, which will be the Oracle.
FOR A ROUND GAME.
Where there are more than six persons present, it will be well
to select the following questions, as the game, connected with
the discussions to which it will probably give rise, will be too
protracted by introducing the whole, and the remaining questions are
of a sentimental rather than personal class.
What is your character?--Gentleman. Page 21
What is your character?--Lady. " 35
What is the personal appearance of your lady-love? " 51
What is the personal appearance of him who
loves you? " 69
What is the character of your lady-love? " 83
What is the character of him who loves you? " 97
Where or what will be your place of residence? " 209
What is your destiny? " 227
A questioner having been selected, he calls on each individual
to choose a number under the question proposed, and reads each
answer aloud as the number is mentioned. If the party agree to
the arrangement, the author of the Oracle can be demanded by the
questioner, and a forfeit paid in case of ignorance, or a premium
given for a correct answer.
If the person whose Oracle is read cannot tell the author, any one of
the party may be allowed a trial in turn, and receive the premium.
WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER?
GENTLEMAN.
All our knowledge is ourselves to know.
POPE.
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