Anecdotes of William Hogarth: Written by HimselfJ.B. Nichols and son, 1833 - 416 páginas |
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... face , nay , even the whole figure , if you take it merely as it presents itself , requires only an exact eye and an adroit hand . Their pattern is before them , and much practice , with little study , is usually sufficient to bring ...
... face , nay , even the whole figure , if you take it merely as it presents itself , requires only an exact eye and an adroit hand . Their pattern is before them , and much practice , with little study , is usually sufficient to bring ...
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... faces all red , all blue , or all pur- ple , he has nothing to do but to hire one of these painted tailors as an assistant , for without him the manufactory can- not go on , and my life for his success . Vanloo , a French portrait ...
... faces all red , all blue , or all pur- ple , he has nothing to do but to hire one of these painted tailors as an assistant , for without him the manufactory can- not go on , and my life for his success . Vanloo , a French portrait ...
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... faces , to prevent , as it is said , his being put in competition with himself in history painting . Had either of these great artists lived in England at this time , they would have found men of very moderate parts — mere face painters ...
... faces , to prevent , as it is said , his being put in competition with himself in history painting . Had either of these great artists lived in England at this time , they would have found men of very moderate parts — mere face painters ...
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... face painter of my day ; for a medium was never so much as suggested . The portrait which I painted with most pleasure , and in which I particularly wished to excel , was that of Captain Coram , for the Foundling Hospital ; and if I am ...
... face painter of my day ; for a medium was never so much as suggested . The portrait which I painted with most pleasure , and in which I particularly wished to excel , was that of Captain Coram , for the Foundling Hospital ; and if I am ...
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... face , He placed in view ; -resolv'd to please , Whoever sat , he drew from these . " This succeeded to a tittle , - 66 ' Through all the town his art they prais'd , His custom grew , his price was rais'd . " J .IRELAND . ] CHAPTER III ...
... face , He placed in view ; -resolv'd to please , Whoever sat , he drew from these . " This succeeded to a tittle , - 66 ' Through all the town his art they prais'd , His custom grew , his price was rais'd . " J .IRELAND . ] CHAPTER III ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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,—
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...