 | Crosthwaite and co - 1860 - 622 ページ
...instruction in drawing that will be of great use to her, — roles of his own, that are to improve her more in a day than a year's learning in the common way. She is a charming performer on the spinnet, and a friend and enthusiastic admirer of Handel. He has... | |
 | Ellen Creathorne Clayton - 1876 - 370 ページ
...instructions about drawing that will be of great use — some rules of his own, that he says will improve mo more in a day than a year's learning in the common...politic, for you excel me now, and when I have delivered up my arms you will vanquish me quite, but this is the only instance where I shall have more pleasure... | |
 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - 1879 - 496 ページ
...painting, there is more sense in it than any I have seen. I believe I wrote you word that Mr. Wesley's family are drawn by him, and Mrs. Donnellan with them....politic, for you excel me now, and when I have delivered up my arms you will vanquish me quite, but this is the only instance where I shall have more pleasure... | |
 | Mrs. Delany (Mary) - 1879 - 492 ページ
...painting, there is more sense in it than any I have seen. I believe I wrote you word that Mr. Wesley's family are drawn by him, and Mrs. Donnellan with them....politic, for you excel me now, and when I have delivered up my arms you will vanquish me quite, but this is the only instance where I shall have more pleasure... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1891 - 510 ページ
...he takes a much greater likeness." .... She goes on to say that Hogarth is to teach her drawing by " some rules of his own that he says will improve me...in a day than a year's learning in the common way," — a thoroughly characteristic utterance (" Autobiography, etc. of Mrs. Delany," 1861, i. 283). commentators,... | |
 | Gertrude Townshend Mayer - 1894 - 374 ページ
...passionately fond of Hogarth's painting ; there is more sense in it than any I have seen. . . . He has promised to give me some instructions about drawing...in a day than a year's learning in the common way." Mrs. Pendarves was then contemplating a visit to Ireland, and the correspondence with John Wesley languished.... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1902 - 424 ページ
...Hogarth she has a very characteristic passage in a letter to her sister Anne of July 13th, 1731 : ' Hogarth has promised to give me some instructions...of his own that he says will improve me more in a clay than a year's learning in the common way." quality, who had excellent good sense, was formerly... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1902 - 384 ページ
...' Hogarth has promised to give me some instructions about drawing that will be of great use—some rules of his own that he says will improve me more...in a day than a year's learning in the common way.' quality, who had excellent good sense, was formerly my correspondent, but she scrawled and spelt like... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1903 - 360 ページ
...Hogarth she has a very characteristic passage in a letter to her sister Anne of July I3th, 1731 i ' Hogarth has promised to give me some instructions...in a day than a year's learning in the common way.' quality, who had excellent good sense, was formerly my correspondent, but she scrawled and spelt like... | |
 | Ethel Rolt-Wheeler - 1910 - 410 ページ
...Delany came into contact with Hogarth too. He promised to give her some instructions for drawing " which will be of great use — some rules of his own that...in a day than a year's learning in the common way." It does not appear that the matter went further, but the incident would seem to suggest that Hogarth,... | |
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I have released Lady Sunder.land from her promise of giving me her picture by Zinck, to have it done by Hogarth.1 I think he takes a much greater likeness, and that is what I shall value my friend's picture for, more than for the excellence of the painting.... 
