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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides - Page 118
by James Boswell - 1831
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 314 pages
...shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible, the...friendship of Dr. Johnson , whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting compared to Hudson's, he said : ' but don't you tell...
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Pilgrimages to English Shrines

Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1854 - 608 pages
...unworthy. ' 1 The hand of him here torpid lies, That drew the essential forms of grace ; Here closed in death the attentive eyes That saw the manners in the face.' The tributes — in poetry and prose — are just ; examine the works of this great painter-teacher...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pages
...The hand of him here torpid lies, That drew th' essential forms of grace ; Here closed in death, th' attentive eyes, That saw the manners in the face.' Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used...
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The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...nurse took up the squealing child, But still the child squeal'd on. EPITAPH FOR MR HOGARTH. THE hand of him here torpid lies, That drew the essential form of grace ; Here closed in death the attentive eyes, That saw the manners in the face. TRANSLATION OP THE TWO PIRST...
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The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 pages
...nurse took up the squealing child, But still the child squeal'd on. EPITAPH FOR MR HOGARTH. THE hand of him here torpid lies, That drew the essential form of grace ; Here closed in death the attentive eyes, That saw the manners in the face. TRANSLATION OF THE TWO FIRST...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 28

1871 - 776 pages
...painter : — " The hand of him here torpid lies. Thai drew the essential form of grace . Here closed in death the attentive eyes That saw the manners in the face." Every day we had out-of-door games, such as "Bowls," "Aunt Sally," and the like, Dickens leading off...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...BOSWELL. 2 Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and, if possible,...(he said.) to the talk of other men, like Titian's paintings compared to Hudson's. Of Dr. Johnson, when my father and Hogarth were talking together about...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...prince.—BOSWEIX. 3 Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and, if possible,...(he said,) to the talk of other men, like Titian's paintings compared to Hudson's. Of Dr. Johnson, when my father and Hogarth were talking together about...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 34

James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...shown to me, was used to be very earnest that I frhmild obtain the acquaintance, and. If possible, tlw friendship, of Dr. Johnson, whose conversation was...said) to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting rompMnetl to Hudson's, of Dr. Johnson, when my father and Hotrartts were talking together about hmi...
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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...Johnson made four lines on the death of poor Hogarth, which were equally true and pleasing : ' The hand ; and all I should get at his school would be ascribed to my ; H«re closed In death the attentive eye«, That saw Che manners in the face.' " *' I know not," adds...
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