Anecdote BiographyR. Bentley, 1860 - 387 pages |
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... remarkable proof of the boy's shrewdness , that at an early age , he profited by observing what was passing immediately around him . In his Anecdotes of himself , he says : " My father's pen , like that of many other authors , did not ...
... remarkable proof of the boy's shrewdness , that at an early age , he profited by observing what was passing immediately around him . In his Anecdotes of himself , he says : " My father's pen , like that of many other authors , did not ...
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... remarkable instance of which occurred in the year 1727. It appears that one Morris , an upholsterer , engaged Hogarth to make a design for tapestry — the subject , the Element of the Earth . The task was performed , when Morris , having ...
... remarkable instance of which occurred in the year 1727. It appears that one Morris , an upholsterer , engaged Hogarth to make a design for tapestry — the subject , the Element of the Earth . The task was performed , when Morris , having ...
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... remarkable as the wit and skill of the observing and dexterous artist . He has to describe the negotiation for a marriage pending between the daughter of a rich citizen Alderman and young Lord Viscount Squanderfield , the dissipated son ...
... remarkable as the wit and skill of the observing and dexterous artist . He has to describe the negotiation for a marriage pending between the daughter of a rich citizen Alderman and young Lord Viscount Squanderfield , the dissipated son ...
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... remarkable faults , and I am now going to give you an idea of the subject , & c . Mr. Hogarth , who lets no oppor- tunity escape him of observing the Pictorial Scenes which numerous Assemblies frequently furnish , has not failed to ...
... remarkable faults , and I am now going to give you an idea of the subject , & c . Mr. Hogarth , who lets no oppor- tunity escape him of observing the Pictorial Scenes which numerous Assemblies frequently furnish , has not failed to ...
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... remarkable work - the Medley , designed and en- graved by Hogarth , and published in 1762 , his object is to literally represent the strange effects resulting from low con- ceptions of sacred things ; and of the idolatrous tendency of ...
... remarkable work - the Medley , designed and en- graved by Hogarth , and published in 1762 , his object is to literally represent the strange effects resulting from low con- ceptions of sacred things ; and of the idolatrous tendency of ...
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Page 116 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless and grand; His manners were gentle, complying and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 316 - All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. Along the crisped shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring; The Graces and the rosy-bosomed Hours Thither all their bounties bring.
Page 136 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country.
Page 73 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
Page 69 - The Bruiser C. Churchill, (once the Rev.) in the character of a Russian Hercules, regaling himself after having killed the monster Caricatura that so sorely galled his virtuous friend the heaven-born Wilkes.
Page 109 - TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, IN LEICESTER-FIELDS. " DEAR SIR, — When I came to Lichfield, I found that my portrait" had been much visited, and much admired. Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place ; and I was pleased with the dignity conferred by such a testimony of your regard.
Page 155 - ... fancy, and a dignity derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape. In painting portraits, he appeared not to be raised upon that platform, but to descend to it from a higher sphere.
Page 172 - If ever this nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honourable distinction of an English school, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the history of the art, among the very first of that rising name.
Page 160 - He went down a few steps, and returned again. ' What use is your book to me if I don't understand it 1 and your lute, you may take it again if you won't teach me to play on it. Come home with me, and give me the first lesson.' 'I will come to-morrow.
Page 82 - He who should call the Ingenious Hogarth a Burlesque Painter, would, in my Opinion, do him very little Honour: for sure it is much easier, much less the Subject of Admiration, to paint a Man with a Nose, or any other Feature of a preposterous Size, or to expose him in some absurd or monstrous Attitude, than to express the Affections of 253 Men on Canvas.