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... marked with uncommon benevolence , was , in 1739 , engraved in mezzo- tinto , by M'Ardell . J. IRELAND . ] + [ Thus does Hogarth pun upon the name of Mr. Ramsay , who For the portrait of Mr. Garrick in Richard III . WRITTEN BY HIMSELF . 21.
... marked with uncommon benevolence , was , in 1739 , engraved in mezzo- tinto , by M'Ardell . J. IRELAND . ] + [ Thus does Hogarth pun upon the name of Mr. Ramsay , who For the portrait of Mr. Garrick in Richard III . WRITTEN BY HIMSELF . 21.
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... marked with some indications of his mind , fully answered my purpose . The ridiculous was apparent to every eye . A Brutus ! a saviour of his country , with such an aspect ! was so arrant a farce , that though it gave rise to much ...
... marked with some indications of his mind , fully answered my purpose . The ridiculous was apparent to every eye . A Brutus ! a saviour of his country , with such an aspect ! was so arrant a farce , that though it gave rise to much ...
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... marked with pleasantry and fun . He never laughed like Rabelais at nonsense that he imposed for wit ; but like Swift combined incidents that divert one from their unexpected encounter , and illustrate the tale he means to tell . Such ...
... marked with pleasantry and fun . He never laughed like Rabelais at nonsense that he imposed for wit ; but like Swift combined incidents that divert one from their unexpected encounter , and illustrate the tale he means to tell . Such ...
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... marked by an important event in the domestic history of our artist ; this was his marriage with Jane , the only daughter of Sir James Thornhill , the histori- cal painter , with whom he became acquainted by attending her father's ...
... marked by an important event in the domestic history of our artist ; this was his marriage with Jane , the only daughter of Sir James Thornhill , the histori- cal painter , with whom he became acquainted by attending her father's ...
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... marked by an event that contributed in no small degree to embitter the declining days of Hogarth , and even , perhaps , to abridge them . In evil hour he turned aside from subjects of universal and permanent interest , to become a ...
... marked by an event that contributed in no small degree to embitter the declining days of Hogarth , and even , perhaps , to abridge them . In evil hour he turned aside from subjects of universal and permanent interest , to become a ...
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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...