I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, — "Shakspeare": being asked which he esteemed next best, replied — "Hogarth. The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 1381819Full view - About this book
| REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1871 - 840 pages
...applicable to his time, and then, not only wholesome and admissible, but greatly needed. Lamb says : " His graphic representations are indeed books; they...Other pictures we look at, — his prints we read." In illustration of this remark we would instance the marriage scene in " The Rake's Progress" series,... | |
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