Famous houses and literary shrines of London (1912)
Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930, Adcock, Frederick · London, J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 74
oanger; and when Wilkes was presently arrested on acharge of high treason, he sat in court and sketchedthe prisoner, immortalising his villainous squint, andaccentuating all the worst qualities in his features.On this print making its appearance, ChurchiU, astaunch friend and partisan of Wilkes,… … HOGARTH 47 his dotage. He can laud the genius, he says, but notthe man. Freely let him wearThe wreath which Genius wove and planted there: ^Foe as I am, should envy tear it down,Myself would labour to replace the crown. . . .Hogarth unrivalled stands, and shall engageUnrivalled praise to the most…
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