Ireland, John: Hogarth illustrated (Band 2,3): Nature (London, 1793)

standing, appealing to the heart, and making the
pencil an advocate in the cause of morality. It is
doing that poetical justice which our dramatists
have sometimes neglected, and in which tbey 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 that attend their violation.
Whatever poetical justice may allow, morality -
demands, that some examples should be held up

to prove

That the
the perfetratk
black a dye as
ably terminate

of a duty frequently leads to
of a crime, and that crimes of so
■e here represented, almost i/ivari-
wrelcbedness, infamy, and death.