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ideas of their disquisitions.—Highlanders, being
universally considered as the soldiers of Europe,
make but an awkward appearance in the charac-
ter of peace-makers.
A sign of the globe on fire, and flames bursting
out of the Globe Tavern, and three other build-
ings, with each an ale-bouse sign, to explain what
nations are meant, borders upon the bathos. Ano-
ther nation, personified by the sovereign fiddling
to his expiring subjects, is not a bad thought,—■
but here it is incongruous. It has not that general
unison with the other parts of the picture, which
either writing or painting demands. Separated
from the accompaniments, this group might have
made a good print; with the Globe Tavern, the
Temple Coffee-house, the garretteers, and the al-
dermen, it does not assimilate.
My last remark I shall take the liberty of bor-
rowing from Mr. Wilkes, for in this one point I
have the honour of agreeing with him;—"the
print is too much crowded with figures."
a satire on our late uncivilized behaviour to the three
chiefs of the Cbtrobtc nation, who were lately in this
kingdom, and the bags of money set this in a still clearer
point of view, signifying the sums gained by shewing them
at our public gardens. The sly Dutchman with his pip*
seems pleased with the combustion, from which he thinks
he shall be a gainer; and the Duke of Nivernoit, under
the figure of a dove, is coming from France, to give a
cessation of hostilities to Europe."
universally considered as the soldiers of Europe,
make but an awkward appearance in the charac-
ter of peace-makers.
A sign of the globe on fire, and flames bursting
out of the Globe Tavern, and three other build-
ings, with each an ale-bouse sign, to explain what
nations are meant, borders upon the bathos. Ano-
ther nation, personified by the sovereign fiddling
to his expiring subjects, is not a bad thought,—■
but here it is incongruous. It has not that general
unison with the other parts of the picture, which
either writing or painting demands. Separated
from the accompaniments, this group might have
made a good print; with the Globe Tavern, the
Temple Coffee-house, the garretteers, and the al-
dermen, it does not assimilate.
My last remark I shall take the liberty of bor-
rowing from Mr. Wilkes, for in this one point I
have the honour of agreeing with him;—"the
print is too much crowded with figures."
a satire on our late uncivilized behaviour to the three
chiefs of the Cbtrobtc nation, who were lately in this
kingdom, and the bags of money set this in a still clearer
point of view, signifying the sums gained by shewing them
at our public gardens. The sly Dutchman with his pip*
seems pleased with the combustion, from which he thinks
he shall be a gainer; and the Duke of Nivernoit, under
the figure of a dove, is coming from France, to give a
cessation of hostilities to Europe."