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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2152#0177
'. "With lantern jaws, and croaking gut,
" See how the half-starv'd Frenchmen strut,
• ' ' " And call its English dogs!
" But soon we'll teach these bragging foes,
" That beef and beer give heavier blows,
"Than soup and roasted frogs.
" The priests inflani'd with righteous hopes,
." Prepare their axes, wheels, and ropes,
" To bend the stiff-neck'd sinner!
"But should they sink in coining over,
" Old Nick Tii'.y full '(v.-i,\t h'r.nicc and Dover,
■\ '.. . "And catch a glorious dinner."
The scenes of all. Mr. Hogarth's prints, except
The Gate of Calais, and that now under consi-
deration, are laid in England. In this, having
quitted his own country, he seems to think him-
self out of the reach of the critics, and in deli-
neating a Frenchman, at liberty to depart from
nature, and sport in the fairy regions of carica-
ture. Were these Gallic soldiers naked, each of
them would appear like a forked raddisb, -with a
head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.—
" See how the half-starv'd Frenchmen strut,
• ' ' " And call its English dogs!
" But soon we'll teach these bragging foes,
" That beef and beer give heavier blows,
"Than soup and roasted frogs.
" The priests inflani'd with righteous hopes,
." Prepare their axes, wheels, and ropes,
" To bend the stiff-neck'd sinner!
"But should they sink in coining over,
" Old Nick Tii'.y full '(v.-i,\t h'r.nicc and Dover,
■\ '.. . "And catch a glorious dinner."
The scenes of all. Mr. Hogarth's prints, except
The Gate of Calais, and that now under consi-
deration, are laid in England. In this, having
quitted his own country, he seems to think him-
self out of the reach of the critics, and in deli-
neating a Frenchman, at liberty to depart from
nature, and sport in the fairy regions of carica-
ture. Were these Gallic soldiers naked, each of
them would appear like a forked raddisb, -with a
head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.—