 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 Seiten
...satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet.' — The Friend. ** "I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who,...'Shakespeare: being asked which he esteemed next best, replied 'Hogarth.' His graphic representations are indeed books: they have the teeming, fruitful, suggestive... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 Seiten
...satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet." — The Friend. , 1 '' I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who,...which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, ' Shakspeare :' being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, ' Hogarth.' His graphic representations... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 Seiten
...satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet." — The Friend. 2 " I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who,...which book he esteemed most in his library, answered ' Shakspeare : being asked which he esteemed next best, replied ' Hogarth.' His graphic representations... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 Seiten
...satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet." — The Friend. * " I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who,...which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, ' Shakspeare :' being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, ' Hogarth.' His graphic representations... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1854 - 386 Seiten
...blind, 608 In corroboration of the poet's view, Lamb thns places Hogarth in the first rank of AUTHORS: "I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman who being...which book he esteemed most in his library, answered Shakspeare; being asked which ho esteemed next best, replied Hogarth. His graphic representations are... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 Seiten
...upon paper or graven upon copper. They resemble Juvenal, or the satiric touches in Timon of Athens. I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who,...which book he esteemed most in his library, answered — " Shakspeare :" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied — " Hogarth." His graphic representations... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 440 Seiten
...or 12* (137) graven upon copper. They resemble Juvenal, or the satiric touches in Timon of Athens. I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who being...book he esteemed most in his library, answered—" Shakspeare;" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied, " Hogarth." His graphic representations... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 Seiten
...upon paper or graven upon copper. They resemble Juvenal, or the satiric touches in Timon of Athens. I was pleased with the reply of a gentlema-n, who,...which book he esteemed most in his library, answered — " Shakspeare :" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied — ** Hogarth." His graphic representations... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 Seiten
...character of Timon. Charles Lamb has the following remarks connected with the character of Timon : — " I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who being...which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, ' Shakspere : ' being asked which he esteemed the next best, replied, ' Hogarth.' His graphic representations... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 Seiten
...satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet.' — The Friend. 2 ' I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who,...Shakespeare " : being asked which he esteemed next best, replied popular parables to interest simple hearts and to inspire them with pleasure or pity or warning... | |
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His graphic representations are indeed books : they have the teeming , fruitful , suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at, his prints we read. 
