Anecdotes of William Hogarth: Written by Himself |
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... and thus ended this academy . Sir James Thornhill , at the head of one of these parties , then set up another in a room he built at the back of his own house , now next the playhouse , and furnished 24 ANECDOTES OF HOGARTH ,
... and thus ended this academy . Sir James Thornhill , at the head of one of these parties , then set up another in a room he built at the back of his own house , now next the playhouse , and furnished 24 ANECDOTES OF HOGARTH ,
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... house into an academy , with the addition of a woman figure , to make it the more inviting to subscribers . This lasted a few years ; but the treasurer sinking the subscription money , the lamp , stove , & c . were seized for rent ; and ...
... house into an academy , with the addition of a woman figure , to make it the more inviting to subscribers . This lasted a few years ; but the treasurer sinking the subscription money , the lamp , stove , & c . were seized for rent ; and ...
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... house ? Gross as are these absurdities , there will always be a band of profound blockheads ready to adopt and circulate them ; if it were only upon the authority of the great names by which they are sanctioned . To return to our Royal ...
... house ? Gross as are these absurdities , there will always be a band of profound blockheads ready to adopt and circulate them ; if it were only upon the authority of the great names by which they are sanctioned . To return to our Royal ...
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... houses and palaces . To conclude , -I think that this ostentatious establishment can answer no one valuable purpose to the arts , nor be of the * Their mode of judging , subjects them to continual imposition ; for what is called manner ...
... houses and palaces . To conclude , -I think that this ostentatious establishment can answer no one valuable purpose to the arts , nor be of the * Their mode of judging , subjects them to continual imposition ; for what is called manner ...
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... houses , as to his great Wardrobe or otherwise . " He thus notices the interest by which he ob- tained the places and its annual profits . ] Just after my brother's death , I obtained , by means E of my friend Mr. Manning and the Duke ...
... houses , as to his great Wardrobe or otherwise . " He thus notices the interest by which he ob- tained the places and its annual profits . ] Just after my brother's death , I obtained , by means E of my friend Mr. Manning and the Duke ...
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Page 223 - Give me another horse! bind up my wounds! Have mercy, Jesu! Soft! I did but dream. O! coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.
Page 160 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Page 109 - Hogarth, in whom the satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet, so often and so gladly introduces as the central figure in a crowd of humorous deformities, which figure (such is the power of true genius) neither acts nor is meant to act as a contrast; but diffuses through all and over...
Page viii - I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, — " Shakespeare : " being asked which he esteemed next best, replied,—
Page 103 - Achilles' image stood his spear Griped in an armed hand ; himself behind Was left unseen, save to the eye of mind : A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head, Stood for the whole to be imagined.
Page 63 - ' The stagnation rendered it necessary that I should do some timed thing to recover my lost time, and stop a gap in my income. This drew forth my print of 'The Times...
Page 244 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Page 77 - I have shown that his views were more generous and extensive. Mirth coloured his pictures, but benevolence designed them. He smiled like Socrates, that men might not be offended at his lectures, and might learn to laugh at their own follies.
Page 151 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
Page 46 - Your People, Sir, are partial in the rest: Foes to all living worth except your own, And Advocates for folly dead and gone. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. Chaucer's worst ribaldry is learn'd by rote, And beastly Skelton' Heads of houses quote: One likes no language but the Faery Queen; A Scot will fight for Christ's Kirk o...