' cried the
multifaced
Demon in
anger.
anger.
Byron
--[MS.
erased.
]
[hb] _And many-languaged cries were like wild geese_. --[Erased. ]
[529] [Compare--
"Wherefore with thee
Came not all Hell broke loose? "
_Paradise Lost_, iv. 917, 918. ]
[hc] _Though the first Hackney will_----. --[MS. ]
[hd] {507}_Ready to swear the cause of all their pain_. --[Erased. ]
[530] [In the game of ombre the ace of spades, _spadille_, ranks as the
best trump card, and basto, the ace of clubs, ranks as the third best
trump card. (For a description of ombre, see Pope's _Rape of the Lock_,
in. 47-64. )]
[531] {508}["'Caitiffs, are ye dumb?
' cried the multifaced Demon in
anger. "
_Vision of Judgement_, v. ]
[532]
["Beholding the foremost,
Him by the cast of his eye oblique, I knew as the firebrand
Whom the unthinking populace held for their idol and hero,
Lord of Misrule in his day. "
_Ibid. _, v.
In Hogarth's caricature (the original pen-and-ink sketch is in the
"Rowfant Library:" see Cruikshank's frontispiece to _Catalogue_, 1886)
Wilkes squints more than "a gentleman should squint. " The costume--long
coat, waistcoat buttoned to the neck, knee-breeches, and stockings--is
not unpleasing, but the expression of the face is something between a
leer and a sneer. Walpole (_Letters_, 1858, vii. 274) describes another
portrait (by Zoffani) as "a delightful piece of Wilkes looking--no,
squinting tenderly at his daughter. It is a caricature of the Devil
acknowledging Miss Sin in Milton. "]
[533] {509}[For the "Coan" skirts of the First Empire, see the fashion
plates and Gillray's and Rowlandson's caricatures _passim_. ]
[he] _It shall be me they'll find the trustiest patriot_. --[MS. erased. ]
[hf] _Said Wilkes I've done as much before_. --[MS.
[hb] _And many-languaged cries were like wild geese_. --[Erased. ]
[529] [Compare--
"Wherefore with thee
Came not all Hell broke loose? "
_Paradise Lost_, iv. 917, 918. ]
[hc] _Though the first Hackney will_----. --[MS. ]
[hd] {507}_Ready to swear the cause of all their pain_. --[Erased. ]
[530] [In the game of ombre the ace of spades, _spadille_, ranks as the
best trump card, and basto, the ace of clubs, ranks as the third best
trump card. (For a description of ombre, see Pope's _Rape of the Lock_,
in. 47-64. )]
[531] {508}["'Caitiffs, are ye dumb?
' cried the multifaced Demon in
anger. "
_Vision of Judgement_, v. ]
[532]
["Beholding the foremost,
Him by the cast of his eye oblique, I knew as the firebrand
Whom the unthinking populace held for their idol and hero,
Lord of Misrule in his day. "
_Ibid. _, v.
In Hogarth's caricature (the original pen-and-ink sketch is in the
"Rowfant Library:" see Cruikshank's frontispiece to _Catalogue_, 1886)
Wilkes squints more than "a gentleman should squint. " The costume--long
coat, waistcoat buttoned to the neck, knee-breeches, and stockings--is
not unpleasing, but the expression of the face is something between a
leer and a sneer. Walpole (_Letters_, 1858, vii. 274) describes another
portrait (by Zoffani) as "a delightful piece of Wilkes looking--no,
squinting tenderly at his daughter. It is a caricature of the Devil
acknowledging Miss Sin in Milton. "]
[533] {509}[For the "Coan" skirts of the First Empire, see the fashion
plates and Gillray's and Rowlandson's caricatures _passim_. ]
[he] _It shall be me they'll find the trustiest patriot_. --[MS. erased. ]
[hf] _Said Wilkes I've done as much before_. --[MS.
