his was a common error with Hogarth; not from his being ignorant of the
use of the mirror, but from his considering it as a matter of little
consequence.

FOOTNOTE:

[3] "What signifies," says some one to Dr. Johnson, "giving halfpence to
common beggars? they only lay them out in gin 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 swallow without 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 humour'd, _debonnaire_, and _degagee_:
Though 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.

But for that powder'd compound of grimace,
That capering he-she thing of fringe and lace;
With sword and cane, with bag and solitaire,
Vain of the full-dress'd dwarf, his hopeful heir,
How does our spleen and indignation rise,
When such a tinsell'd coxcomb meets our eyes,

Among the figures who are coming out of church, an affected, flighty
Frenchwoman, with her fluttering fop of a husband, and a boy, habited
_a-la-mode de Paris_, claim our first attention. In dress, air, and
manner, they have a national character. The whole congregation, whether
male or female, old or young, carry the air of their country in
countenance, dress, and deportment. Like the three principal figures,
they are all marked with some affected peculiarity. Affectation, in a
woman, is supportable upon no other ground than that general indulgence
we pay to the omnipotence of beauty, which in a degree sanctifies
whatever it adopts. In a boy, when we consider that the poor fellow is
attempting to copy what he has been taught to believe praiseworthy, we
laugh at it; the largest portion of ridicule falls upon his tutors; but
in a man, it is contemptible!

The old fellow, in a black periwig, has a most vinegar-like aspect, and
looks with great contempt at the frippery gentlewoman immediately before
him. The woman, with a demure counte