 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 - Seite 1381819Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 510 Seiten
...who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered ' Shakspeare : ' being asked which he esteemed next best, replied ' Hogarth.' His...Other pictures we look at — his prints we read. . . . " The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would almost unvulgarize every... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1896 - 402 Seiten
...who being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered— " Shakspeare," being asked which he esteemed next best, replied — ' ' Hogarth....the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words.' — Charles Lamb. 302-303. Richard Wilson. Views near Rome. ' I believe that with the name of Richard... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 824 Seiten
...who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered ' Shakspeare ' : being a*ked which he esteemed next best, replied ' Hogarth.' His graphic representations are indeed books : they hnve the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of "words. Other pictures we look at — his prints... | |
 | Constable, Archibald, and company - 1899 - 400 Seiten
...portraits. He published an " Analysis of Beauty," 1753. He died in 1764, and was buried at Chiswick. "His graphic representations are indeed books ; they...meaning of words. Other pictures we look at — his we read." " No man was ever less a hero ; you see him before you, and you fancy what he was — a jovial,... | |
 | 1900 - 916 Seiten
...and explanations of the plates, by John Nichols. English painter and engraver, 1697-1764. "Hogarth's graphic representations. . .are indeed books; they...teeming fruitful suggestive meaning of words. Other prints we look at, his prints we read." Charles Lamb. KEDDIE, Henrietta, (pseud. Sarah Tytler). Modern... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1901 - 200 Seiten
...gentleman who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered Shakespeare, being asked which he esteemed next best, replied Hogarth. His...Other pictures we look at — his prints we read." The Essay on Hogarth and the notes that were published with the Specimens of Dramatic Poets would have... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 Seiten
...who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered ' Shakspeare : ' being asked which he esteemed next best, replied ' Hogarth.' His...Other pictures we look at — his prints we read. . . . " The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would almost unvulgarise every... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 424 Seiten
...who being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, — "Shakspeare : " being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, — " Hogarth."...Shakspeare (which I have just mentioned) and Hogarth's Rakes Progress together. The story, the moral, in both is nearly the same. The wild course of riot... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 634 Seiten
...who being asked which hook he esteemed most in his library, answered, — "Shakspeare : " being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, — " Hogarth."...sometimes entertained myself with comparing the Timon of Athena of Shakspeare (which I have just mentioned) and Hogarth's Rake's Progress together. The story,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 Seiten
...being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, 15 — "Shakespeare : " being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, — "Hogarth."...pursuance of this parallel, I have sometimes entertained 20 myself with comparing the Timon of Athens of Shakespeare (which I have just mentioned) and Hogarth's... | |
| |
