Anecdotes of William Hogarth: Written by Himself |
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... considerable pathos . One considers him as a great sa- tiric author , who described the follies and vices of his age with the pencil and the burin . " And our ingenious coun- tryman , Mr. Lamb , thus places him in the first rank of ...
... considerable pathos . One considers him as a great sa- tiric author , who described the follies and vices of his age with the pencil and the burin . " And our ingenious coun- tryman , Mr. Lamb , thus places him in the first rank of ...
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... considerable article in the commerce of this country ; there being now more business of this kind done here , than in Paris , or any where else , and as well . • The dealers in pictures and prints found their craft in danger , by what ...
... considerable article in the commerce of this country ; there being now more business of this kind done here , than in Paris , or any where else , and as well . • The dealers in pictures and prints found their craft in danger , by what ...
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... considerable , if not the largest class of his productions ; -enough surely to rescue Hogarth from the imputation of being a mere buffoon , or one whose general aim was only to shake the sides . There remains a very numerous class of ...
... considerable , if not the largest class of his productions ; -enough surely to rescue Hogarth from the imputation of being a mere buffoon , or one whose general aim was only to shake the sides . There remains a very numerous class of ...
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... considerable attractions of feature , or of person . Hogarth was the Analyser , not the Painter , of Beauty . This circum- stance need not , however , occasion any very serious regret , since never was there an artist who more ...
... considerable attractions of feature , or of person . Hogarth was the Analyser , not the Painter , of Beauty . This circum- stance need not , however , occasion any very serious regret , since never was there an artist who more ...
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... considerably height- ened the effect produced in the original by the burin of the former . The next production of importance by which Hogarth distinguished himself was , the " Roast Beef of Old England , " which perhaps acquired as much ...
... considerably height- ened the effect produced in the original by the burin of the former . The next production of importance by which Hogarth distinguished himself was , the " Roast Beef of Old England , " which perhaps acquired as much ...
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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...