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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2152#0175
THE INVASION;
FRANCE AND ENGLAND,
In the two following designs Mr. Hogarth has
displayed that partiality for his own country, and
contempt for France, which formed a strong trait
in his character. He neither forgot nor forgave
the insults he suffered at Calais, though he did
not recollect that this treatment originated in his
own ill humour, which threw a sombre shade over
every object that presented itself. Having early
imbibed the vulgar prejudice, that one English-
man is a match for four Frenchmen* he thought
* Lavaler's character of this people is not exactly similar
to Hogmh's delineation j it is, however, curious: " The
" form of a Frenchman is different from that of all other
" nation, snrl difficult to describe in words. No other
*' man has so little of the firm or deep trails, or so much
"motion. He is all appearance,all gesture; therefore, the
" first i-npr.-ssiori seldom deceives, but declares who and
" what he is. His imagination is incapable of high flights,
" and the sublime, in all arts, is to him offence. Hence
" his dislike of whatever is antique in art or literature,—
" his deafness to true music,—his blindness to the highest
FRANCE AND ENGLAND,
In the two following designs Mr. Hogarth has
displayed that partiality for his own country, and
contempt for France, which formed a strong trait
in his character. He neither forgot nor forgave
the insults he suffered at Calais, though he did
not recollect that this treatment originated in his
own ill humour, which threw a sombre shade over
every object that presented itself. Having early
imbibed the vulgar prejudice, that one English-
man is a match for four Frenchmen* he thought
* Lavaler's character of this people is not exactly similar
to Hogmh's delineation j it is, however, curious: " The
" form of a Frenchman is different from that of all other
" nation, snrl difficult to describe in words. No other
*' man has so little of the firm or deep trails, or so much
"motion. He is all appearance,all gesture; therefore, the
" first i-npr.-ssiori seldom deceives, but declares who and
" what he is. His imagination is incapable of high flights,
" and the sublime, in all arts, is to him offence. Hence
" his dislike of whatever is antique in art or literature,—
" his deafness to true music,—his blindness to the highest