William Hogarth, Volume 1S. Low, Marston, limited, 1891 - 368 pages |
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66 Hogarth According to Act Act of Parliament advertisement afterwards Analysis of Beauty appears April artist Belonged in 1833 Boydell British Museum Calais Caricaturas Catalogue character Chiswick Churchill copy dated death drawing Earl edition English Engrav'd Exhibited face fecit figure Foundling Hospital Frontispiece Garrick genius Genuine George Steevens Gin Lane Graphic Illustrations guineas Harlot's Progress head Hoadly Hogarth Illustrated Hogarth pinx Hogarth's Engraving Horace Walpole Hudibras Humours impressions Industry and Idleness inscription Invented Painted issued J. B. Nichols John Ireland Journal June lady Lane Leicester Fields letter Livesay London Lord March to Finchley Marriage A-la-Mode Mary Lewis mezzotint original pictures painter Plate portrait Price publication line Publish'd published Rake's Progress reference Royal satire says scene sculp Shilling Sigismunda sketch sold Street subscription ticket tion Title volume Wilkes William Hogarth Wm Hogarth
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Page 274 - 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.
Page 104 - The painter dead, yet still he charms the eye; While England lives, his fame can never die: But he who struts his hour upon the stage, Can scarce extend his fame for half an age; Nor pen nor pencil can the actor save, The art, and artist, share one common grave.
Page 156 - Not to mention the wretchedness of the colouring, it was the representation of a maudlin strumpet just turned out of keeping, and with eyes red with rage and usquebaugh, tearing off the ornaments her keeper had given her.
Page 63 - He who should call the Ingenious Hogarth a Burlesque Painter, would, in my Opinion, do him very little Honour: for sure it is much easier, much less the Subject of Admiration, to paint a Man with a Nose, or any other Feature of a preposterous Size, or to expose him in some absurd or monstrous Attitude, than to express the Affections of 253 Men on Canvas.
Page 184 - Mr. Hogarth's dutiful respects to Lord . Finding that he does not mean to have the picture which was drawn for him, is informed again of Mr.
Page 169 - With his rejoinder, such as it was, Hogarth lost little time. He issued for a shilling, before the month was out, " The Bruiser C. Churchill, (once the Rev.) in the character of a Russian Hercules, regaling himself after having killed the monster Caricatura that so sorely galled his virtuous friend the heaven-born Wilkes.
Page 212 - The Works of William Hogarth, including the Analysis of Beauty, elucidated by Descriptions, critical, moral and historical, founded on the most approved Authorities ; to which is prefixed, some Account of his Life. By Thos.
Page 116 - ... in the basket seemed to be alive ; and I every moment received from them such violent blows that I thought my last hour was come. I now found that what the black had told me was no exaggeration ; but all my complaints were useless. I was obliged to suffer this torture nearly an hour, till we came to another hill again, when, quite shaken to pieces and sadly bruised, I again crept to the top of the coach and took possession of my former seat.
Page 62 - In his excellent works you see the delusive scene exposed with all the force of humour, and, on casting your eyes on another picture, you behold the dreadful and fatal consequence. I almost dare affirm that those two works of his, which he calls the Rake's and the Harlot's Progress, are calculated more to serve the cause of virtue, and for the preservation of mankind, than all the folios of morality which have been ever written ; and a sober family should no more be without them, than without the...
Page 15 - ... common to all children, was remarkable in me. An early access to a neighbouring painter drew my attention from play; and I was, at every possible opportunity, employed in making drawings. I picked up an acquaintance of the same turn, and soon learnt to draw the alphabet with great correctness. My exercises, when at school, were more remarkable for the ornaments which adorned them, than for the exercise itself. In the former, I soon found that blockheads with better memories could much surpass...