 | Henry Fielding - 1809 - 560 pages
...bnt they who copy them draw as uulike the present age, as Hogarth would do if he was to paint a ront or a drum in the dresses of Titian and of Vandyke. In short, imitation here will not do the busl•ess. The picture must be after nature herself. A trne knowledge of the world is gained ouly... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 394 pages
...Congreve copied nature: but they who copy them draw as unlike the present age, as Hogarth would do if he was to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of...conversation, and the manners of every rank must be seen in order-to be known. Now it happens that this higher order of mortals is not to be seen, like all the... | |
 | Henry Fielding - English fiction - 1857 - 866 pages
...Congreve copied nature ; but they who copv them draw as unlike the present age, as Hogarth would do if he was. to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of...the manners of every rank must be seen in order to b« known. Now it happens that this higher order of mortals is not to be seen, like all the rest of... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 456 pages
...Congreve copied nature : but they who copy them, draw as unlike the present age, as Hogarth would do if he was to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of...business. The picture must be after nature herself. A tnie knowledge of the world is gained only by conversation, and the manners of every rank must be seen,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1861 - 452 pages
...Congreve copied nature : but they who copy them, draw as unlike the present age, as Hogarth would do if he was to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of Titian and of Yandyke. In short, imitation here will not do the business. The picture must be after nature herself.... | |
 | Pierce Egan - London (England) - 1869 - 446 pages
...Facts; and also pointing out that a true Knowledge of the World is gained only by Conversation, and that the Manners of every Rank must be seen in order to be known, 80 LIFE IN LONDON. TOM and JERRY on their P's and Q's at ALMACK'S; PAGE or, A Fat Sorrow better than... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 366 pages
...describing the manners of upper life, may possibly be that in reality they know nothing of it. . . . . A. true knowledge of the world is gained only by conversation,...of every rank must be seen in order to be known." — Fielding in ' Tom Jones;' book xiv. chap. 1. "I twitched the string just in time: the coach stopped.... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 352 pages
...describing the manners of upper life, may possibly be that in reality they know nothing of it. .... A true knowledge of the world is gained only by conversation,...of every rank must be seen in order to be known." — Fielding in ' Tom Jones,' book xiv. chap. 1. 11 " I twitched the string just in time : the coach... | |
 | William Forsyth - England - 1871 - 388 pages
...describing the manners of upper life, may possibly be that in reality they know nothing of it. . . . . A true knowledge of the world is gained only by conversation,...of every rank must be seen in order to be known.' 1 —Fielding in ' Tom Jones/ book xiv. chap. i. Harlowe, than in imitating the language and describing... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 pages
...describing the manners of upper life, may possibly be that in reality they know nothing of it. .... A true knowledge of the world is gained only by conversation,...manners of every rank must be seen in order to be known."—Fielding in ' Tom Jones,' book xiv. chap. 1. 11 "I twitched the string just in time: the... | |
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Vanbrugh and Congreve copied nature ; but they who copy them draw as unlike the present age, as Hogarth would 5 do if he was to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of Titian and of Vandyke. In short, imitation here will not do the business. The picture... 
