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To put the finishing touch to the bustle of departure, a man blows a post-horn out of a window. The whole scene might serve as an illustration to " Pere- grine Pickle " or " Tom Jones." Industry and Idleness, says Hogarth himself, exhibited " the conduct of two fellow 'prentices : where the one by taking good courses, and pursuing points for which he was put apprentice, becomes a valuable man, and an ornament to his country : the other, by giving way to idleness, naturally falls into poverty, a...nd ends fatally, as is ex- pressed in the last print." The end, as Leigh Hunt says, was " an avowed commonplace," ..." while the execu- tion of it was full of much higher things and profounder humanities." There is no finer stroke in Hogarth than that by which the miserable player at " halfpenny-under- the-hat," in PI. iii., is shown to have but a plank between him and the grave ; nor is there anything more forcible in its squalid realism than the episode in Thomas Idle's career to which Dr. King subjoined the epigraph — " The sound of a shaken leaf shall chase him." Very piteous, too, is the grief of the widowed mother when her repro- CONTEMPORARIES.
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