It was the intention of the artist to give a literal representation of the strange effects resulting from literal and low conceptions of sacred things ; as also of the idolatrous tendency of pictures in churches, and prints in religious books. Public Characters - Page 3581801Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| 1801 - 602 pages
...sn-ffd " beings, AS also if the idolatrous tendency cf pictures in cburcbes% amd " prints in rtlignaa books. " The author's portrait, engraved from a picture...should add; that he is tall, thin, pale-faced, and sickly in his appearance; and, indeed, his health, foe the last two or three years, has been in so... | |
| 1801 - 606 pages
...beings t as also if the iiklatrous tendency of pictures in churches, ami " prints in religious looks." The author's portrait, engraved from a picture painted...should add; that he is tall, thin, pale-faced, and sickly in his appearance; and, indeed, his health, for the last two or three years, has been in so... | |
| 1801 - 496 pages
...beings, at aljo of ihf idolatrous ttnd:ncy »f figures in " churches, and prints in religious tooks." The author's portrait} engraved from a picture painted by his friend Mortimer, and prefixed to his firft volume of Hogarth, is a ftriking refcmblance. If we were to defcribe the 01 iginal in the manner... | |
| Shropshire gazetteer - 1824 - 1028 pages
...lineal representation of the strange effects resulting from literal and low conception of sacred beings, as also of the idolatrous tendency of pictures in...illustrators of portraits, we should add ; that he was tall, thin, pale-faced, aud sickly in his appearance; and indeed, his health, for the last two... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...representation of the strange effects resulting from literal and low conceptions of sacred things ; as also of the idolatrous tendency of pictures in churches, and prints in religious books. To exemplify this he had not far to travel ; the more grovelling of the sectaries — they whose enthusiastic... | |
| William Hogarth - 1833 - 538 pages
...representation of the strange effects resulting from literal and low conceptions of sacred beings, as also of the idolatrous tendency of pictures in churches, and prints in religious books, &c. To exemplify this he has parodied the productions of several eminent masters, whose works, having... | |
| 1846 - 316 pages
...representation of the strange effects resulting from literal and low conceptions of sacred things ; as also of the idolatrous tendency of pictures in churches, and prints in religious books. To exemplify this he had not far to travel ; the more grovelling of the sectaries — they whose enthusiastic... | |
| John Timbs - 1860 - 424 pages
...is to literally represent the strange effects resulting from low conceptions of sacred things ; and of the idolatrous tendency of pictures in churches, and prints in religious books. He has pictured a fierce preacher and a startled congregation : in his right hand he shakes a god,... | |
| William Hogarth - 1874 - 528 pages
...representation of the strange effects resulting from literal and low conceptions of sacred beings, as also of the idolatrous tendency of pictures in churches, and prints in religious books," etc. To exemplify this, he has parodied the productions of 1 The reader is referred to Vol. II. Plate... | |
| Austin Dobson - 1883 - 180 pages
...plate " a lineal representation of the strange effects of literal and low conceptions of sacred beings, as also of the idolatrous tendency of pictures in churches and prints in religious books." Accordingly, from a pulpit decorated with dangling puppets of Moses and Aaron, Peter, Paul, and Adam... | |
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