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HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED.
THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS.
PLATE I.
•< The snares are set, the plot is laid.
Ruin awaits thee,—hapless maid!
. Seduction sly assails thine ear,
And. gloating, fun! desire is near;
Baneful and blighting are their smiles,
Destruction waits upon their wiles.
Alas! thy guardian angel sleeps,
Vice claps her hands, and virtue weeps."
E.
1 he general aim of historical painters has been
to emblazon some signal exploit of an exalted:
and distinguished character. To go through a
series of actions, and conduct their hero from
the cradle to the grave, to give a history upon
canvas, and tell a story with the pencil, few of
them attempted. Mr. Hogarth saw with the in-
tuitive eye of genius, that one path to the Temple
of Fame was yet untrodden; he took nature
for his guide, and gained the summit. He was
•he painter of nature; for he gave, not merely the
ground plan of the countenance, but marked
the features with every impulse of the mind.
VOL. I. B
THE HARLOT'S PROGRESS.
PLATE I.
•< The snares are set, the plot is laid.
Ruin awaits thee,—hapless maid!
. Seduction sly assails thine ear,
And. gloating, fun! desire is near;
Baneful and blighting are their smiles,
Destruction waits upon their wiles.
Alas! thy guardian angel sleeps,
Vice claps her hands, and virtue weeps."
E.
1 he general aim of historical painters has been
to emblazon some signal exploit of an exalted:
and distinguished character. To go through a
series of actions, and conduct their hero from
the cradle to the grave, to give a history upon
canvas, and tell a story with the pencil, few of
them attempted. Mr. Hogarth saw with the in-
tuitive eye of genius, that one path to the Temple
of Fame was yet untrodden; he took nature
for his guide, and gained the summit. He was
•he painter of nature; for he gave, not merely the
ground plan of the countenance, but marked
the features with every impulse of the mind.
VOL. I. B