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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 — "Hogarth. "
The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 138
1819
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges and The English ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 pages
...who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered ' Shakspcare : ' being asked which he esteemed next best, replied ' Hogarth.' His...words. Other pictures we look at —his prints we read. . . . " The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would almost unvulgarise every...
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Lectures on the English humourists of the eighteenth century: Mit ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 pages
...gentleman, who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered 'Shakespeare': being asked which he esteemed next best, replied 'Hogarth'. His...graphic representations are indeed books : they have teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at — his prints we read "The...
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Roundabout Papers, to which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...which pervades the whole works of the being asked which he esteemed next best, replied ' Hogarth.' Hi« graphic representations are indeed books : they have the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of uxtrds. Other pictures we look at — his prints we read " The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds...
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Complete Works, Volume 4

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...him, and Jacky was a good boy and had plum-cake, which pervades the whole works of the being asked which he esteemed next best, replied ' Hogarth.' His...words. Other pictures we look at — his prints we read "The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would almost unvulgarize every subject...
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A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery: Including, by Special ..., Volume 1

1888 - 742 pages
...being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, — ' Shakespeare ' ; being asked which he esteemed next best, replied — 'Hogarth.'...meaning of words. Other pictures we look at, — his we read " (CHARLES LAMB : On the Genius and Character of Hogarth). " I HELIEVE that with the name of...
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Poems, Plays and Miscellaneous Essays

Charles Lamb - 1888 - 442 pages
...his library, answered,—"Shakspere:" 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...
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The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges ; The ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pages
...gentleman, who. bemg asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered ' bhakspeare ' : being asked which he esteemed next best, replied ' Hogarth.' His...representations are indeed books : they have the teeming, frintful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at — his prints we read. . . . The...
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A Book about London: The Streets of London. An Alphabetical Index to the ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1890 - 240 pages
...by the sign of the " Golden Head," which he had put together with pieces of cork, glued and painted. they have the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning...Other pictures we look at — his prints we read. . . . The quantity of thought which he crowds into every picture would almost unvulgarise every subject...
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Thackeray's Works, Volume 8

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 498 pages
...who, being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered ' Shakspeare : ' being asked which he esteemed next best, replied 'Hogarth.' His...Other pictures we look at — his prints we read. . . . " The quantity of thought which Hogarth crowds into every picture would almost unvulgarize every...
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Walks in London, Volume 2

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 388 pages
...gentleman, who being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered— "Shakspeare," being asked which he esteemed next best, replied — " Hogarth."...the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words.' — Charles Lamb. 302-303. Richard Wilson. Views near Rome. ( I believe that with the name of Richard...
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