 | English literature - 1781 - 754 pages
...and from the mode of their paffions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who, when his daughter is expiring in the lgoniee of poifon, wears a face of folicitude, but it is to fave her gold ringi which he is drawing... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1780 - 504 pages
...and from the mode of their paffions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who when his daughter is expiring in the agonies of poifon, wear a face of folicitude, but it is to fave her gold ring, which he is drawing gently' from... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 pages
...and ffom the mode of their paffions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the Alderman, who, when his daughter is expiring in the agonies of poifon, wears a face of folicitudc, but it is to fave her gold-ring, which he is drawing geqiiy from... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...situation and from the mode of their passions, not from having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who when his daughter is expiring in the agonies of poisoii, wears a fare of solicitude, but it is to »ave her gold ring, which he is drawing gently from... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit pf fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who when his daughter...solicitude, but it is to save her gold ring, which he is'drawing gently from her finger. The thought is parallel to Moliere's, where the miser puts out one... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Artists - 1827 - 400 pages
...and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who when his daughter...the candles as he is talking.* Moliere, inimitable as he has proved, brought a rude theatre to perfection. Hogarth had no model to follow and improve... | |
 | William Hogarth - Art - 1833 - 538 pages
...and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who when his daughter...the candles as he is talking. Moliere, inimitable as he has proved, brought a rude theatre to perfection. Hogarth had no model to follow and improve... | |
 | British literature - 1834 - 532 pages
...daognter is tofMrtff ffl «he agmtfe* at pafjofr, wear, t face of solicituiW, but it is to sare her gwld ring, which he is drawing gently from her finger. The thought is parallel to iVIoli ire's, where the miser puts otit OIKS of the candles as he is talking. Molftre, inimitable as... | |
 | John Gould - Art - 1838 - 432 pages
...and from the mode? of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the Alderman, who, when his daughter...to save her gold ring, which he is drawing gently off her finger. The thought is parallel to Moliere's, where the miser puts out one of the candles as... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 pages
...and from the mode of their passions, not from their having the wit of fine gentlemen. Thus there is wit in the figure of the alderman, who, when his daughter...thought is parallel to Moliere's, where the miser puts ' Since the first edition of this work, a much ampler account of Hogarth and hia works has been given... | |
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... last print of the set I have mentioned, is an ignorant rustic ; and if wit is struck out from the characters in which it is not expected, it is from their acting conformably to their situation and from the mode of their passions, not from their having... 
