Part 10 (1/2)

Keen blows the blast, and eager is the air; With flakes of feather'd snow the ground is spread; To step, withpace, to early prayer, Our clay-cold vestal leaves her downy bed

And here the reeling sons of riot see, After a night of senseless revelry

Poor, trear plies; But frozen chastity the little boon denies

This withered representative of Miss Bridget Alworthy, with a shi+vering foot-boy carrying her prayer-book, never fails in her attendance atservice She is a symbol of the season--

-------------Chaste as the icicle That's curdled by the frost fros on Dian's te eye, and all the conscious pride of severe and stubborn virginity, on the poor girls who are suffering the eered out of To's Coffee-house One of theirl: she shows no displeasure at the boisterous salute of her Hibernian lover That the hero in a laced hat is from the banks of the Shannon, is apparent in his countenance The female whose face is partly concealed, and whose neck has a more easy turn than ays see in the works of this artist, is not formed of the most inflexible irl, war on the ground, and a wretched mendicant,[3] wrapped in a tattered and parti-coloured blanket, entreating charity fro to church, co's Coffee-house, are a party engaged in a fray, likely to create business for both surgeon and els in the combatants' hands

On the opposite side of the print are two little schoolboys That they have shi+ningfaces we cannot positively assert, but each has a satchel at his back, and according with the description given by the poet of nature, is

Creeping, like snail, unwillingly to school

The lantern appended to the woman who has a basket on her head, proves that these dispensers of the riches of Pomona rise before the sun, and do part of their business by an artificial light Near her, that i to an ad virtues of his wonder-working medicines One hand holds a bottle of his miraculous panacea, and the other supports a board, on which is the king's arms, to indicate that his practice is sanctioned by royal letters patent Two porringers and a spoon, placed on the bottom of an inverted basket, intimate that the woman seated near theht into the ued porter leans on a rail; and a blind beggar is going towards the church: but whether he will becoation, or take his stand at the door, in the hope that religion may have warmed the hearts of its votaries to ”Pity the sorrows of a poor blind ing fro prospect; but, to dissipate the cold, there is happily a shop where spirituous liquors are sold _pro bono publico_, at a very little distance A large pewter measure is placed upon a post before the door, and three of a s over theof the house

The character of the principal figure is admirably delineated She is enerally accompanies her order, and is an exact type of a hard winter; for every part of her dress, except the flying lappets and apron, ruffled by the wind, is as rigidly precise as if it were frozen It has been said that this inconed as the representative of either a particular friend, or a relation Individual satireto the public, but is frequently fatal to the satirist

Churchill, by the lines,

----------------Farant, Gave me an old house, and an older aunt,

lost a considerable legacy; and it is related that Hogarth, by the introduction of this withered votary of Diana into this print, induced her to alter a hich had been h satisfied with her resery

Extreme cold is very well expressed in the slip-shod footboy, and the girl who is warroup of which she is a part, is well formed, but not sufficiently balanced on the opposite side

The church dial, a few minutes before seven; marks of little shoes and pattens in the snow, and various productions of the season in the market, are an additional proof of that minute accuracy hich this artist inspected and represented objects, which painters in general have neglected

Govent Garden is the scene, but in the print every building is reversed

This was a conorant of the use of theit as a matter of little consequence

FOOTNOTE:

[3] ”What signifies,” says soars? they only lay thein or tobacco” ”And why,”

replied the doctor, ”should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence? It is surely very savage to shut out from them every possible avenue to those pleasures reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance

Life is a pill which none of us can sithout gilding, yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still more bare, and are not ashamed to show even visible marks of displeasure, if even the bitter taste is taken from their mouths”

[Illustration: MORNING]

NOON

Hail, Gallia's daughters! easy, brisk, and free; Good huh still fantastic, frivolous, and vain, Let not their airs and graces give us pain: Or fair, or brown, at toilet, prayer, or play, Their motto speaks their manners--TOUJOURS GAI