 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 pàgines
...answered, — " Shakspeare :" being asked which . he esteemed next best, replied,' — " Hogarth." " Hogarth." His graphic representations are indeed books:...have the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of icords. Other pictures we look at, — his prints we rx'ad. In pursuance of this parallel, f have sometimrs... | |
 | 1814 - 1032 pàgines
...being asked whicli 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.... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pàgines
...gentleman, who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered " Shakgpeare :" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, " Hogarth."...pursuance of this parallel, I have sometimes entertained mj'self with comparing the Timon of Athens of Shakspeare (which I have just mentioned) and Hogarth's... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pàgines
...being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered " Sbakspeare :" being asked vrhich he esteemed next best, replied, " Hogarth." His graphic...fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures v,Te look al — bis prinls we read. In pursuance of this parallel, I have sometimes entertained myself... | |
 | Richard Dagley, Thomas Gaspey - 1821 - 294 pàgines
...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." It is impossible not to kindle at the warmth of the writer of this essay, whatever difference of opinion... | |
 | John Britton - 1827 - 136 pàgines
..." who being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, " Shakspeare;" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, " Hogarth."...the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words." The eight pictures of the Rake's Progress detail a clear, full, and forcible history of the eventful... | |
 | William Hogarth - 1833 - 538 pàgines
...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." Mr. George Steevens, one of the earliest and ablest commentators on Hogarth, judiciously remarks :... | |
 | 1834 - 532 pàgines
...with Mr. Charles Lamb, the author who has written best upon the works of this great satirist, that " his graphic representations are indeed books : they...have the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of word*. Other pictures we look at, — his prints we read." • For obvious reasons, the selection we... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 376 pàgines
...who being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered,—" Shakspeare:" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied,—" Hogarth."...suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at,—his prints we read. In pursuance of this parallel, I have sometimes entertained myself with comparing... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 404 pàgines
...library, answered, — " Shakspeare: " being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, — " Hogai-th." His graphic representations are indeed books : they...Shakspeare (which I have just mentioned) and Hogarth's Rakes Progress together. The story, the moral, in both is nearly the same. The wild course of riot... | |
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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. 
