 Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn...  Once a Week - Page 165edited by - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Charles Mackay - 1840 - 426 pages
...Garrick wrote the following inscription : — •" Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who reached the noblest point of art ; Whose pictured morals charm...; If neither touch thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here." This epitaph has been very much admired, but it is by no means a favourable... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1842 - 322 pages
...; Whose pietured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correet the heart. If genius fire thce, reader, stay ; If nature move thee, drop a tear; If neither touch thee, turn away ! For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here." The Earl of Macartney, well known as the ambassador to China, was buried... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 380 pages
...by the latter to Dr. Johnson for correction, who in return suggested the lines given in vol. ip 216. Farewell great painter of mankind, Who reach'd the...charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. Tf genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature move thee, drop a tear, If neither touch thee, turn away,... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 pages
...written by Garrick, are carved on his tombstone : " Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who reached the noblest point of art ; Whose pictured morals charm...heart. If genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear ; If neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honoured dust lies here."... | |
 | 1864 - 822 pages
...before our minds the Stirling records of the past : "Farewell! treat painter of mankind. Who reached the noblest point of art ; Whose pictured morals charm the mind. And through the eje correct the heart." History has its " pictured morals." What are the histories of Alexander, of... | |
 | 1846 - 316 pages
...new ; but David was contented with what follows. " Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reached the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eyp correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If Nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...finally appear**! in Lhiswick Church in tliis shape : — Farewell, great painter of mankind. Who reached lling Leibnitz a great man. JOHNSOH. " Why, Sir, Leibnitz...space sensorium numinit, notwithstanding he was c touch thee, drop a tear ; If neither move thee, turn away. For Hogarth's honoured dust lies here I... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 466 pages
...where a tomb, with the subjoined inscription, is now, or was lately, in a state of neglect and decay. " Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the...heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay ; If Nature touch thee, drop a tear; If neither move thee, turn away. For Hogarth's honoured dust lies here." —... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - 1849 - 388 pages
...the pen of the equally celebrated David Garrick:— " Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who readied the noblest point of art ; Whose pictured morals charm...stay ; If nature move thee, drop a tear; If neither tonch thee, turn away ! For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here." The Earl of Macartney, well known as... | |
 | 1912 - 666 pages
...Hogarth, on whose monument is Garrick's inscription : — Farewell, great painter of mankind. Who reached the noblest point of Art, Whose pictured morals charm...the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius»fire thee, Reader, stay ; If Nature touch thee, drop a tear ; If neither move thee, turn away,... | |
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