 | William Hogarth - 1833 - 538 pages
...or farce, — for high or low life. I have endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer : my picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show. Before I bad done any thing of much consequence in this walk,... | |
 | 1918 - 288 pages
...criticised by the same criterion . . . (29). I have endeavoured to treat my subject äs a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show.' Reynolds spricht in seiner 14. Rede beiläufig von Hogarths... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1865 - 536 pages
...or low life. I have endeavoured to treat my fubjects as a dramatic writer : my picture is my ftage, and men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and geftures, are to exhibit a dumb-fhow." The great feries of pictures, indeed, which form the principal... | |
 | Tom Taylor - 1874 - 554 pages
...comedy or farce, for high or low life. I have endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer. My picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gesture , are to exhibit a dumb show." This is Hogarth's own account of his aim, and his claim... | |
 | William Hogarth - 1874 - 528 pages
...comedy, or farce — for high or low life. I have endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show. " Before I had done anything of much consequence in this... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1879 - 184 pages
...to rank in the highest class." ... "I have endeavoured to treat my subject as a dramatic writer ; 1 my picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who by means of certain actions and gestures are to exhibit a 1 It is noticeable that in more than one of his prints he speaks of himself... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1926 - 916 pages
...entitled to rank in the highest class. . . . I have endeavored to treat my subject as a dramatic writer; my picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who by means of certain actions and gestures are to exhibit a dumb show. . . . This I found was most likely to answer my purpose, provided... | |
 | 1888 - 892 pages
...representations on the stage." "I bave endeavoured," he says again, " to treat my subject as a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage,- and men and women my players, who by means of certain actions and gestures are to exhibit a dumb thaw." There was never a more eloquent dumb show than this of the... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1891 - 510 pages
...entitled to rank in the highest class." ..." I have endeavoured to treat my subject as a dramatic writer;1 my picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who by means of certain actions and gestures are to exhibit a dumb show." . . . . " This I found was most likely to answer my purpose,... | |
 | 1903 - 780 pages
...entitled to rank in the highest class." . . . "I have endeavored to treat my subject as a dramatic writer; my picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who by means of certain actions and gestures are t<> exhibit a dumb show." . . . "This 1 found was most likely to answer my purpose,... | |
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I have endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer; my picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show. 
