Painting Personified (Volume 2); Or, the Caricature and Sentimental Pictures of the Principal Artists of the Present Times, Fancifully Explained (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1790. Excerpt: ... NUMBER XIV. '"' THE FARMER'S VISIT TO HIS MARRIED DAUGHTER IN LONDON., '.-, '.', , ' B? MORLAND. Whilst oft we see a beauteous Face .i r' The Source of Ruin and Disgrace, The lovely Maid, though lowly born, If Vutui'i brighter Charms adorn, May hope a happier Lot In Lifej To shine with higher Ranks, and be an envied Wife, A. B, BY an assiduous Attention to the Cultivation of a small Estate, rented by him, Farmer Tre/oil had made shift to bring up his Children, two Daughters and a Son, with a Degree of Credit consonant to his Line of Life. Mrs. Trefoil, as well as himself, had endeavoured, from their earliest Years, to instil into their Minds a Love of Virtue and Prudencej and had bestowed on them such an Education as the Village they lived in would afford. This indeed amounted to little more than Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and to the female Part, slain Work j these being the whole of the Sciences taught at the principal Academy of the Place, kept by Mr, Amen and Company, alias Mrs. Amen who occasionally assisted her Husband.in teaching the lower Forms to spell, i with with the additional Task of instructing the Girls in plain Work.: , .. The Heroine of the Picture under Consideration, PrisciUa, the Farmer's eldest Daughter, from her very Childhood, exhibited Proofs of her being born to move in a higher Sphere of Life than that in which she was placed. There was a captivating Grace in her Manner, that, added to an agreeable Person, and a Set of pleasing Features, seemed to command Respect, and sec her above her little School-Fellows. Her Mind also was endowed with an Acuteness, Sensibility, and Prudence, far above her Years. So that it was the I 'general Opinion of the Village Gossips, that she, at some Time or other, would be A great Woman j--a Progno...