The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 133
... HOGARTH . - ON THE GRAND AND FAMILIAR STYLE OF PAINTING If the quantity of amusement , or of matter for more serious reflection which their works have afforded , is that by which we are to judge of precedence among the intellectual ...
... HOGARTH . - ON THE GRAND AND FAMILIAR STYLE OF PAINTING If the quantity of amusement , or of matter for more serious reflection which their works have afforded , is that by which we are to judge of precedence among the intellectual ...
Page 140
... Hogarth paints nothing but comedy , or tragi - comedy . Wilkie paints neither one nor the other . Hogarth never looks at any object but to find out a moral or a ludicrous effect . Wilkie never looks at any object but to see that it is ...
... Hogarth paints nothing but comedy , or tragi - comedy . Wilkie paints neither one nor the other . Hogarth never looks at any object but to find out a moral or a ludicrous effect . Wilkie never looks at any object but to see that it is ...
Page 144
... Hogarth had not only a perception of fashion , but a sense of natural beauty . There are as many pleasing faces in his pictures as in Sir Joshua . Witness the girl picking the Rake's pocket in the Bagnio scene , whom we might suppose to ...
... Hogarth had not only a perception of fashion , but a sense of natural beauty . There are as many pleasing faces in his pictures as in Sir Joshua . Witness the girl picking the Rake's pocket in the Bagnio scene , whom we might suppose to ...
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