Anecdotes of William Hogarth: Written by HimselfJ.B. Nichols and son, 1833 - 416 páginas |
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... four letters of the alphabet , and their infinite combinations ( each of these being composed of lines ) , and would consequently be an accurate designer . This I thought my only chance for eminence , as I found that the beauty and ...
... four letters of the alphabet , and their infinite combinations ( each of these being composed of lines ) , and would consequently be an accurate designer . This I thought my only chance for eminence , as I found that the beauty and ...
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... four inches long , which they have before them , they * [ Hogarth may possibly allude to Ranelagh Barret , who , I learn from Mr. Walpole , was thus employed ; and , being counte .. nanced by Sir Robert Walpole , copied several of his ...
... four inches long , which they have before them , they * [ Hogarth may possibly allude to Ranelagh Barret , who , I learn from Mr. Walpole , was thus employed ; and , being counte .. nanced by Sir Robert Walpole , copied several of his ...
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... four times , before they can make it what they think right . The little praise due to their productions ought , in most cases , to be given to the drapery man , whose pay is only one part in ten , while the other nine , as well as all ...
... four times , before they can make it what they think right . The little praise due to their productions ought , in most cases , to be given to the drapery man , whose pay is only one part in ten , while the other nine , as well as all ...
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... four hundred pounds had a short time before been bid for a picture of Sigismunda , painted by a French master , but falsely ascribed to Corregio , four hundred pounds was the price at which I rated this . By any other of my pursuits I ...
... four hundred pounds had a short time before been bid for a picture of Sigismunda , painted by a French master , but falsely ascribed to Corregio , four hundred pounds was the price at which I rated this . By any other of my pursuits I ...
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... four hundred too much money for it . * One more favour I have to beg , which is , that you will determine on this matter as soon as you can conveniently , that I may resolve whether I shall go about another picture , for Mr. Hoare the ...
... four hundred too much money for it . * One more favour I have to beg , which is , that you will determine on this matter as soon as you can conveniently , that I may resolve whether I shall go about another picture , for Mr. Hoare the ...
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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...