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

of furniture; and in Europe, a spoiled child.
Under the last denomination, we may safely class
the heroine of this history. She has all the pout-
ing humours of a boarding-school girl. This al-
liance originated in her father being ambitious to
aggrandize his family, and the sire of the viscount
wishing to clear his estate. These purposes an-
swered, the two patriarchs troubled themselves
no farther; a similarity of disposition, or union
of hearts, the nobleman considered as too vul-
gar ideas for a man of rank, and in the citi-
zen's ledger of happiness, there were no such
items. Their dispositions are strongly marked
by the different objects which engage .their at-

The portly nobleman, with the conscious dig-
nity of high birth, displays his genealogical tree,
the root of which is, William Duke of Normandy,
and conqueror of England. The valour of his
great progenitor, and the various merits of the
collateral branches which dignify his pedigree, he
considers as united in his own person, and there-
fore looks upon an alliance with his son as the
acme of honour, the apex of exaltation. While
he is thus glorying in the dust of which his an-
cestors were once compounded, the prudent citi-
zen, who in return for it, has parted with dust of
a much more weighty and useful description, pay-
ing no regard to the heraldic blazonry, devotes
•all his attention to the marriage settlement. The