 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 648 pągines
...being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, — " Shakspeare : " being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, " Hogarth."...have sometimes entertained myself with comparing the Timón of Athens of Shakspeare (which I have just mentioned) and Hogarth's Rake's Progress together.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 297 pągines
...who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, ' Shakspeare :' being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, ' Hogarth.'...words. Other pictures we look at — his prints we read " The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would almost unvulgarise every subject... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 297 pągines
...who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, ' Shakspeare :' being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, ' Hogarth.'...words. Other pictures we look at— his prints we read ' " The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would almost unvulgarise every... | |
 | W. TOOKE - 1854
...gentleman 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." An ingenious foreigner, M. Bartseh arrives at the same conclusion ; he thus writes : " Hogarth, who... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - 588 pągines
...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 - 1855
...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 mocken king of snow, To melt before the sun of Bolmgbrnke," (which I have just mentioned)... | |
 | 1856
...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 - 1856 - 425 pągines
...gentleman, who being asked which book 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856
...which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, ' Shakspere : ' being asked which he esteemed the next best, replied, ' Hogarth.' His graphic representations...have the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of erords. Others' pictures we look at, — his prints we real "In pursuance of this parallel, I have... | |
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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. 
