 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 476 pągines
...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 501 pągines
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 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1842
...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
...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
...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 - 628 pągines
...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
...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
...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
...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... | |
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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. 
