| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pagini
...who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered — " Shakspeare :" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied — " Hogarth."...myself with comparing the Timon of Athens of Shakspeare " Oh that I were a mockery king of snow, To melt before the sun of Bolingbroke," if we have been going... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1842 - 352 pagini
...who, being asked which book he esteemed the best in his library, answered ' Shakspeare ;. being asked which he esteemed next best, replied 'Hogarth.. His...meaning of words. Other pictures we look at, — his we read." ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. — " The character of William Hogarth as a man is to be sought for in... | |
| Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 400 pagini
...gentleman who being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered Shakespeare ; being asked which he esteemed next best, replied Hogarth. His...they have the teeming fruitful suggestive meaning of wards. Other pictures we look at — his prints we read." An ingenious foreigner, M. Bartsch arrives... | |
| 1847 - 640 pagini
...Hogarth's genius, by Lamb, in his incomparable essay, that his graphic representations are books, and have the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of...Other pictures we look at — his prints we read." Mr. Cruikshank aspires to the same kind of praise ; and no trifling share of it may be conceded to... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1845 - 710 pagini
...who, being asked which book be esteemed the best in his library, answered ' Shakspeare ;' being asked which he esteemed next best, replied 'Hogarth.' His...meaning of words. Other pictures we look at, — his we read." ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. — " The character of William Hogarth as a man is to be sought for in... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1850 - 324 pagini
...and fixed him almost alone in his glory. As a painter of life in all its phases, he is unrivalled ; ' his graphic representations are indeed books : they...Other pictures we look at — his prints we read.' Such is the testimony of Lamb ; but it may be objected, he was a literary man, not an artist. The testimony... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 pagini
...who, being nsked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered — " Shakspeare :" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied — " Hogarth."...Other pictures we look at — his prints we read. In pursuances of this parallel, I have sometimes entertained myself with comparing the Timon of Athens... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 656 pagini
...answered, 'Shakspere:' being asked whieh he esteemed the next best, replied, ' Hogarth.' His graphie representations are indeed books : they have the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Others' pietures we look at, — his prints we read. " In pursuanee of this parallel, l have sometimes... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pagini
...being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, — " Shakspeare : " being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, " Hogarth."...have sometimes entertained myself with comparing the Timón of Athens of Shakspeare (which I have just mentioned) and Hogarth's Rake's Progress together.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pagini
...who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, ' Shakspeare :' being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, ' Hogarth.'...words. Other pictures we look at — his prints we read " The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would almost unvulgarise every subject... | |
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