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Dear innocent! enjoy thy little hour, . 
And tafte of blifs while blifs is in thy power 5 
With ken prophetic, I, alas ! forefee, 
A life of forrow is ordain’d for thee. 
Though fraught with powers that to thy 
{cenes impart 
Woes that diftrefs, and agonize the heart 5 
The Fates this fern decree to me reveal, 
The pangs he paints fo well his foul fhall 
Feeley 
For pallid poverty with chilling hand, 
And all her blighting train, a baleful band, 
Attend thy footfteps—while corroding care 
Leads on to black and comfortlefs defpair, 
By Famine’s fatal gripe bereft of breath, 
Thy race half run, thy miferies end with 
death.” 
Of thefe two prints, which are com- 
panions, and uniform in fize and fub- 
ject, we took fome notice previous to the 
publication of the latter,and the expecta- 
tions we then formed from the well-known 
tafte and talent of the artift who delinea- 
ted them, have not been difappointed. 
In the print of the Birth of Otway, the 
face of the Female is marked with forrow, 
and the infcription, which we have prefix- 
ed, deferibing her anguih as arifing from 
her foreboding the future fate of the in- 
fant is well imagined. ‘They exhibit a 
picture of the foadnefs of the parent, and 
the fate of the poet, of whom it is reiated, 
that, when near perifhing with hunger, he 
afked a gentleman, whom he met, for a 
fhilling. This gentleman gave him a 
guinea, and Otway immediately bought 
a roll and was croaked with the firft 
mouthful. Of this ftory, which has ge- 
nerally obtained belief, Dr. Jvhnfon has 
fome doubts, but admits that indigence, 
and its concomitants, forrow and defpon- 
dency, preffed hard upon him, and _ pro- 
bably fhortened his life. 
Among the comic and fatirical prints 
that are worth attention, thofe by Mr. 
Gilray continue to have the lead. But 
admirably as they are marked, and great- 
ly as they abound with wit, they are ge- 
neraliy of a local and temporary defcrip- 
- tion. He has been juftly faid to inherit 
a portion of the genius of Hogarth ; but 
the characters of Hogarth being built up- 
on general nature, are addrefled to allages, 
as well as that in which they- were 
painted. 
A new and improved edition of Ho- 
garth, illufirated from his own Manu- 
Scripts, by Fubu Ireland, is juk publithed 
Retrofpect of the F ine Arts. 
which has feldom been equalled.’ 
[Auguft 1, 
for Meffrs. Boydell, for Mefirs. Nicol, and 
alfo for the author. In this work, which 
contains more than forty new prints, there 
is much that is both curious and original, 
concerning his own life and opinion of 
the arts, and of the inftitution of-a Royal 
Academy, of a Society for the Encou- 
ragement of Arts, Manufactures, and 
Commerce, &c. &c. &c. Alfo, feverai 
letters which were written to him by emi- 
nent charaéters; his difagreement with 
Wilkes, and Churchill, and his own de- 
f{cription of feveral of his friends, with 
a complete catalogue, and all the varia- 
tions. The prints are generally judici- 
cufly chofen and well engraved ; that of 
Enthufiafim delineated (copied from one of 
Hogarth’s prints, of which there were 
never more than two impreilions taken 
off ) contains a moft fevere and pointed 
fatire ; that of The Dance, difplaysan eae 
and elegance in the air of the figures, 
Mr. 
Ireland ftates that it was not until fome 
years after the publication of his two firft 
volumes of Hogarth Illujfrated, that he 
learned that the artift had left in the pof- 
feflion of his widow the materials upon 
which this 3d volume is built. To thefe 
two volumes it forms a proper and necef- 
fary conclufion, end the three volumes 
combined exhibit a good full length pic- 
ture of this great artift, and a clear expla- 
nation, though we think it fometimes ra- 
ther too diffufe, of his numerous comic and 
moral produtions. 
" 
Mr. Ireland feems more folicitous than , 
we think is now quite neceflary, to guard 
againft his Hogarth being miftaken for 
the Graphic [filuftrations of the late Mr. 
Samuel Ireland, author of the Shake- 
fpeare Papers; having prefixed to this 
edition, an advertifement iiating that this 
work has no connection with that. On 
the firft publication this might be proper 
and neceflary, but, after the death of Mr. 
Samuel Ireland; after the fale of nearly 
two large impreffions of Mr. John Ire- 
lard’s two firft volumes, and of one edi- 
tion of his third volume, we think there 
is little danger of the public mftaking 
John Ireland, who is alive, for the Samuel 
Ireland thatis dead. | 
The fale of the tickets for the Shake- 
fpeare Gallery Lottery, has been fo rapid, 
that we are told it wi!l be drawn at an 
earlier period than was firft intended. 
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