DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2152#0007
" the characters and expressions, to be done by
" the author, representing a variety of modern
" occurrences in high life, and called Marriage
" d-la-Mode.
" Particular care is taken that the whole work
" shall not be liable to exception, on account of
" any indecency or inelegancy; and that none of
" the characters represented; shall he personal,
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. He has exhibited the prospect of a fa-
shionable marriage, where the gentleman is at-
tracted by riches, and the lady by ambition. That
misery and destruction succeeded an union,
founded upon such principles, is not to be won-
dered at; the progress of that misery, and final
destruction of the actors, is so delineated as to
form a regular and well-divided tragedy. In the
first act arc five principal characters, and three of
them, by a regular chain of incidents, naturally
flowing from each other, fall victims to their own
vices. The young nobleman, for 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, distracted by a recollection of
her former conduct, makes her quietus with a
dose of laudanum. This is painting to the under-
" the author, representing a variety of modern
" occurrences in high life, and called Marriage
" d-la-Mode.
" Particular care is taken that the whole work
" shall not be liable to exception, on account of
" any indecency or inelegancy; and that none of
" the characters represented; shall he personal,
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. He has exhibited the prospect of a fa-
shionable marriage, where the gentleman is at-
tracted by riches, and the lady by ambition. That
misery and destruction succeeded an union,
founded upon such principles, is not to be won-
dered at; the progress of that misery, and final
destruction of the actors, is so delineated as to
form a regular and well-divided tragedy. In the
first act arc five principal characters, and three of
them, by a regular chain of incidents, naturally
flowing from each other, fall victims to their own
vices. The young nobleman, for 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, distracted by a recollection of
her former conduct, makes her quietus with a
dose of laudanum. This is painting to the under-