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 - الصفحة 138 1819 عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
...applicable to his time, and then, not only wholesome and admissible, but greatly needed. Lamb says : " His graphic representations are indeed books; they...Other pictures we look at, — his prints we read." In illustration of this remark we would instance the marriage scene in " The Rake's Progress" series,...