England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . hich Harley and his colleagues hadattained to power are told under fictitious characters,in a manner well calculated to take hold upon thesentiments of an ordinary class of readers. A secondedition of this book was published within a few the frontispiece, the Earl of Oxford, the great poli-tical juggler of the time, is caricatured under thefigure of Powel (a man immortalised in the Spec- tator as the keeper of a puppet-show in the Piazza of CoventGarden) exhibiting his puppetsto the
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . hich Harley and his colleagues hadattained to power are told under fictitious characters,in a manner well calculated to take hold upon thesentiments of an ordinary class of readers. A secondedition of this book was published within a few the frontispiece, the Earl of Oxford, the great poli-tical juggler of the time, is caricatured under thefigure of Powel (a man immortalised in the Spec- tator as the keeper of a puppet-show in the Piazza of CoventGarden) exhibiting his puppetsto the world. Well, gentle-men, you shant be hang out my canvas too,and, like my brother monster-mongers, well daubd into thebargain. Stare then—and be-hold—the novel figure. Yousee what is written over hishead. This is Mr. Powel —thats he—the little crookedgentleman, that holds a staffin his hand, without which hemust fall. The sight is wellworth your money, for you may not see such anotherthese seven years, nay, perhaps not this age. Inone part of this book we have a rather ingenious. ROBERT, THE POLITICAL JUGGLER, 1714.] THE ISLE OF NOSES. 17 Story or vision of an island of noses, in which thedreamer meets with a large hooked-nose (Marlbo-rough), covered with rags and dirt, the reward hehad received for beating the enemies of his a procession of flat-noses is seen approach-ing ; for a distemper lately come from France [anallusion to the intrigues of Annes last ministry withthe French court] has swept away most of our palates,and sunk our noses in the manner that you will see,and that is one reason why the high hook-noses haveof late been so much out of fashion. My friendwas going on, when at the end of the aforesaid caval-cade a parcel of rabble flat Frenchifyd bridgless nosescame and set upon him in a most base and barbarousmanner, and, with a snuflling broken tone, calPd himTraytor! Upon which my friendly Mucterian tookto his heels, and by tha
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