Author: William Hogarth

Cited by

• Peter Quennell (1)
  • IN: The Wanton Chase (1980) Non-Fiction, Biography, British
    EPIGRAPH: Pursuing is the business of our lives... Every arising difficulty, that for a while attends and interrupts the pursuit, gives a sort of spring to the mind... Intricacy in form, therefore, I shall define to be that peculiarity in the lines, which compose it, that leads the eye a wanton kind of chase, and from the pleasure that gives it the mind, intitles it to the name of beautiful...
    FROM: Analysis of Beauty, (1753), NULL, UK
• Alex Connor (2)
  • IN: Legacy of Blood (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I remember the time when I have gone moping into the city, with scarce a shilling in my pocket... but as soon as I had received ten guineas... sallied out again with all the confidence of a man with ten thousand pounds...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK