Madam, who hasjust had her tea, is in an attitude which explains itself, perhaps, too much. The clock shews you it is noon and this anticipation of the night upon the day, is not the slightest of those strokes which are intended to shew the disorder which reigns in the house. There is h ere represented a room where there hasjust been one of these routs, and the company just separ ated, as you see by the wax candles not yet extinguished.

Tired and fatigued one of another, such husbands and wives have nothing in common but a house, tiresome to the husband, and into which he enters as late as he can and which would not be less tiresome to the lady, was it not sometimes the theatre of other pleasures, either in entertainments or routs. We unite ourselves by contract, and we live separately by inclination. “ THAT indifference between the parties which preceded Marriage a la Mode, has not been wanting to follow it. A number of idle footmen, who are about the court of this building, finish the representation of the ruinous pageantry in which the Earl is engaged,” THE SECOND PICTURE. Another lawyer is exclaiming witlw admiration on the beauty of a building seen at a distance, and upon which the Earl has spent his whole fortune, and has not sufficient to finish the same. The other is playing neglig ently with a ring, and seems to hear with indifference the conversation of a kind of a lawyer, who attends the execution of the marriage articles. The two persons who are betrothed, on their parts are by no means attentive to one another: the one IooJ s at himself in the glass, is taking snuff, and thinking of nothing. Whatever poetical jus- tice may allow, morality demands, that some examples should be held up to prove-Īncestors :-every thing about him carries marks of distinction his very crutches, the humbling consequence of his infirmities, are decked with an earl's coronet these infirmities are introduced here as the usual consequence of that irregularity of living, but too frequent among the great.

It is doing that poetical justice which our dramatists have sometimes neglected, and in which they have perhaps been justified by the common events of human life for it must be acknowledged, that while virtue is frequently unfortunate, we often see vice successful: notwithstanding this, those pictures are surely best calculated to encourage men in the practice of the social duties, which display the evils consequent upon their violation. This is painting to the understanding, appealing to the heart, and making the pencil an advocate in the cause of morality. reflection of having been the cause of th eir lives terminating in so horrid a manner, makes her own quiet us with a dose of laudanum.

The young nobleman, fur attempting to revenge the violation of his wife’s virtue, which he never cherished, is killed by her paramour, who for this murder suffers an ignominious death: and the lady, distracte d at the. In the first act are represented five principal characters, and three of them by a regular chain of incidents, naturally flowing from each other, fall victims to their own vices. That misery and destruction succeeded an union founded upon such principles, is not to be wondered at the progress of that misery and the final destruction of the actors, is so delineated as to form a r egular and well divided tragedy. He has exhibited the prospect of a fashionable marriage, where the gentleman is attracted by riches, and the lady by ambi tion. 2 4 0 The Bruiser, Charles Churchill,Īnd that “ none of the characters represented shall be “ personal, See.” The artist has adhered to his engagement: he has struck at an higher order, and displayed the follies and vices which frequently degrade our nobility. 1 6 3 C r e d u l i t y, S u p e r s t i t i o n, & c. 1 2 9 T h e M a r c h t o F i n c h l e y. A n E l e c t i o n E n t e r t a i n m e n t. 9 2 M o t e s b e f o r e P h a r o a h ’ s d a u g h t e r. 9 0 P a u l b e f o r e F e l i x, P l a t e I I. 8 5 P a u l b e f o r e F e l i x, P l a t e I. f i O P a u l b e f or e F el i x, i n t he m a n ne r o f R e m b ra n d t.

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