The Works of William Hogarth

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are certain he also is a losing gamester; and so absorbed in reflection, that neither the boy who brings him a glass of water, nor the watchman's cry of "Fire!" can arouse him from his reverie. Another of the party is marked for one of those well-dres

e has severely frowned, biting his nails in the anguish of his soul. The fifth completes the climax; he is frantic; and with a drawn sword endeavours to destroy a pauvre miserable whom he supposes to have cheated him, but is prevented by the interposition of one of

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ipper of the golden calf, is well contrasted by the sleek, contented vacancy of so well-employed a legislator of this

are disregarded, and the vehement cries of a watchman entering the room, are necessary to

s on his folly for having lost his last stake. - This is, upon the whole, perhaps, the best print of the set. The horrid scene it describes, was never more inimitably drawn. The co

across, lost in an agony of horror. Perhaps never passion was described with so much force. In a short time this horrible gloom bursts into a storm of fury: he tears in pieces what comes next him; and, kneeling down, invokes curses upon himself. He next attacks others; every one in his turn whom he imagines to have been