Ireland, John: Hogarth illustrated (Band 1): William Hogarth (London, 1793)

prejudice, we cannot wonder that all its
imperfections were exaggerated. Thepaint-
ed harlot of Babylon had not more oppro-
brious epithets from the first race of re-
formers, than the painted Sigismonda of
Hogarth from the last race of patriots. *
When a favourite child is chastised by his

* The attack was commenced in No. 17 of the North
Briton, which was published on the 17 th of September, 1762.
On the 16th, Mr. Hogarth being at Salisbury, called upon
the colonel of the Buckinghamshire militia (who was then
quartered in the neighbourhood), with the good-natured
intention of shaking hands: as bis old friend was not at
home, they neither met then, jior at any future period. In
my account of the Times, there are a few strictures on this
political pasquinade, which was followed by much metrical
lampoon from the reverend Mr. Churchill. Let us hear his
coadjutor, Robert Lloyd, who in a fable entitled Genius,
£»vy, and Time, gives Time the following speech:
" Yet, Genius, mark what I presage,
" Who look through every distant age :
•' Merit shall bless thee with her charms,
** Fame lift thy offspring in her arms,
" And stamp eternity of grace
" On all thy numerous, various race.
" Roubiliac, Wilton, names as high
" As Phidias of antiquity,
" Shall strength, expression, manner give,
" And make e'en marble breathe and live;