| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pàgines
...shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible the...friendship, of Dr. Johnson ; whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting compared to Hudson's, he said : ' but don't you tell... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 360 pàgines
...unworthy : — " The hand of him here torpid lies That drew the essential forms of grace : Here closed in death the attentive eyes That saw the manners in the face." His sister Ann followed him to the grave in 1771, and his wife, who loved him living, and honoured... | |
| Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 pàgines
...portrait of her, as she appeared in her fifteenth year. " He was most anxious," she writes, " that I should obtain the acquaintance and, if possible, the...friendship of Dr. Johnson, whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting compared to Hudson's, he said ; ' but don't you tell... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pàgines
...The hand of him here torpid lies, That drew th' essential forms of grace ; Here, closed in death, th' attentive eyes, That saw the manners in the face.' " Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used... | |
| 1888 - 742 pàgines
...artist's life — The hand of him here torpid lies That drew the essential forms of grace : Here closed in death the attentive eyes That saw the manners in the face. The most striking feature in Hogarth's art is involved in what has just been said. He is often described... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pàgines
...The hand of him here torpid lies, That drew th' essential forms of grace; Here, closed in death, th' attentive eyes, That saw the manners in the face." "Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used... | |
| Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 394 pàgines
...ready to second Murphy's proposal. ' Mr. Hogarth,' she writes, ' was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible the...friendship, of Dr. Johnson, whose conversation was to the talk of other men like Titian's painting compared with Hudson's, he said Of Dr. Johnson, when... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 498 pàgines
...shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible the...friendship, of Dr. Johnson ; whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting compared to Hudson's, he said : ' but don't you tell... | |
| Leonard Benton Seeley - 1891 - 398 pàgines
...ready to second Murphy's proposal. ' Mr. Hogarth,' she writes, ' was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible the...friendship, of Dr. Johnson, whose conversation was to the talk of other men like Titian's painting compared with Hudson's, he said Of Dr. Johnson, when... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 474 pàgines
...The hand of him here torpid lies, That drew th' essential forms of grace ; Here, closed in death, th' attentive eyes, That saw the manners in the face.' " Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used... | |
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