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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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Johnsoniana: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 468 pages
...The hand of him here torpid lies, That drew th' essential form of grace ; Here clos'd in death th' attentive eyes, That saw the manners in the face." Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shewn to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with The journal of a tour ..., Volume 6

James Boswell - 1884 - 534 pages
...The hand of him here torpid lies, That drew th' essential form of grace ; Here clos'd in death th' attentive eyes. That saw the manners in the face." Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shewn to me when 1 was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used...
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Johnsoniana: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, by Mrs. Piozzi, Richard ...

Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1884 - 544 pages
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges and The English ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 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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Lectures on the English humourists of the eighteenth century: Mit ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 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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Roundabout Papers, to which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 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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Great English Painters

Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 360 pages
...unworthy : — " 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." His sister Ann followed him to the grave in 1771, and his wife, who loved him living, and honoured...
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Life of Samuel Johnson

Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 pages
...portrait of her, as she appeared in her fifteenth year. " He was most anxious," she writes, " 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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Complete Works, Volume 4

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 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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A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery: Including, by Special ..., Volume 1

1888 - 742 pages
...artist's life — 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 most striking feature in Hogarth's art is involved in what has just been said. He is often described...
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