 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 páginas
...library, answered — " Shakspeare :" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied — " Hogarth." His graphic representations are indeed books : they...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)... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 páginas
...library, answered — " Shakspeare :" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied — ** Hogarth." His graphic representations are indeed books : they...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 - 440 páginas
...his library, answered—" Shakspeare;" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, " Hogarth." His graphic representations are indeed books ; they...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 - 824 páginas
...library, answered, ' Shakspere : ' being asked which he esteemed the next best, replied, ' Hogarth.' His graphic representations are indeed books: they have the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of erords. Others' pictures we look at, — his prints we real "In pursuance of this parallel, I have... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 páginas
...interest simple hearts and to inspire them with pleasure or pity or warning and terror. Not " Hogarth ". His graphic representations are indeed books : they...Other pictures we look at — his prints we read. . . . ' The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would almost unvulgarize every... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1864 - 382 páginas
...most in his library, answered Shakspeare; being asked which he esteemed next best, replied Hogarth. His graphic representations are indeed BOOKS, they...fruitful suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures \ve look at — his prints we read." An ingenious foreigner, M. Bartsch arrives at the same conclusion... | |
 | 1866 - 398 páginas
...most in his library, answered Shakspeare; being asked which he esteemed next best, replied Hogarth. His graphic representations are indeed BOOKS, they...Other pictures .we look at — his prints we read." What with contempt all viewM, to view with awe, Nor see those faults which every blockhead saw ? Blush,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 334 páginas
...in his library, answered 'Shakespeare: being asked which he esteemed next best, replied 'Hogarth.' His graphic representations are indeed books: they...words. Other pictures we look at — his prints we read * Coleridge speaks of the "beautiful female faces" in Hogarth's pictures, "in whom," he says, "the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 páginas
...library, answered, —" Sliakspeare:" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, " Hogarth." His graphic representations are indeed books : they...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 706 páginas
...library, answered, ' Shakspere : ' being asked which he esteemed the next best, replied, ' Hogarth.' His graphic representations are indeed books : they...the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Others' pictures we look at, — his prints we rea*', " In pursuance of this parallel, I 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, 
