 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...the figures in either pictures or prints be considered as players, dressed either for the sublime — for genteel comedy or farce — for high or low life....subjects as a dramatic writer; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, •who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1830 - 402 pages
...prints be considered as players, dressed either for the sublime— for genteel comedy or farce—for high or low life. I have endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show.''... | |
 | 1830 - 658 pages
...the characters of a genteel comedy transferred to the canvas. " I have endeavoured," says Hogarth, "to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show."... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...figures in either pictures or prints be considered as players, dressed either for the sublime. — for genteel comedy or farce — for high or low life....endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer; my pic^ ture .is my stage, my men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions aud gestures,... | |
 | William Hogarth - 1833 - 538 pages
...the figures in either pictures or prints be considered as players dressed either for the sublime, — for genteel comedy,* or farce, — for high or low...women my players, who by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show. Before I bad done any thing of much consequence in this walk,... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1842 - 352 pages
...of 404. , which she enjoyed for two years before her death, tween the sublime and the grotesque. I endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, who by means of certain actions and gestures are to exhibit a dumb show."... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1845 - 710 pages
...annuity of 40/., which she enjoyed for two yean before her death. tween the sublime and the grotesque. I endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, who by means of certain actions and gestures are to exhibit a dumb show."... | |
 | 1846 - 316 pages
...the figures in either pictures or prints be considered as players, dressed either for the sublime — for genteel comedy or farce — for high or low life....subjects as a dramatic writer; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show."... | |
 | 1851 - 490 pages
...the figures in either pictures or prints be considered as players, dressed either for the sublime — for genteel comedy or farce — for high or low life....subjects as a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show."... | |
 | Daniel Huntington - 1838 - 492 pages
...the figures in either pictures or prints be considered as players, dressed either for the sublime — for genteel comedy or farce — for high or low life....subjects as a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show."... | |
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I have endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show. 
