 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...asserted that Greene was as eminent in composition as Handel. "That fellow Freke," replied Hogarth, " is always shooting his bolt absurdly one way or another! Handel is a giant in music ; Greene only a light Florimel kind of a composer." — " Ay," said the informant, " but at the same time Mr. Freke declared... | |
 | Biography - 1814 - 538 pages
...eminent in composition as Handel. "That fellow Freke," replied Hogarth, " is always shooting hisbolt absurdly one way or another! Handel is a giant in music ; Greene only a light Florimel kind of a composer."' — "Ay,4' said the informant, " but at the same time Mr. Freke declared,... | |
 | John Julius Angerstein, John Young - Painting - 1823 - 296 pages
...asserted that Green was as eminent in composition as Handel. " That fellow Freake," replied Hogarth, " is always shooting his bolt absurdly one way or another : Handel is a giant in music, — Green only a light florimel kind of a composer." But, said the informant, " Mr. Freake, at the... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...coffee-house that Greene was as eminent in composition as Handel. •' That fellow, Freke," cried Hogarth, " is always shooting his bolt absurdly one way or another. Handel is a giant in music, Greene only a light Florimel kind of composer." " Ay, but," said the other, " Freke declared you were as good a portrait... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1830 - 402 pages
...coffee-house, that Greene was as eminent in composition as Handel. " That fellow, Freke," cried Hogarth, " is always shooting his bolt absurdly one way or another. Handel is a giant in music, Greene only a light Florimel kind of composer." " Aye, but," said the other, " Freke declared you were as good a portrait... | |
 | Child rearing - 1846 - 316 pages
...coffee-house that Greene was as eminent in composition as Handel. •' That fellow, Freke," cried Hogarth, " is always shooting his bolt absurdly one way or another. Handel is a giant in music, Greene only a light Florimel kind of composer." " Ay, but," said the other, " Freke declared you were as good a portrait... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...asserted that Greene was as eminent in composition .as Handel. ' That fellow Freke,' replied Hogarth, ' is always shooting his bolt absurdly, one way or another. Handel is a giant in music ; Greene only a light Florimel kind of a composer.' ' Ay,' says our artist's informant, ' but at the same time Mr. Freke... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 306 pages
...asserted that Greene was as eminent in composition .as Handel. ' That fellow Freke,' replied Hogarth, ' is always shooting his bolt absurdly, one way or another. Handel is a giant in music ; Greene only a light Florimel kind of a composer.' ' Ay,' says our artist's informant, ' but at the same time Mr. Freke... | |
 | John Brownlow - Foundlings - 1858 - 162 pages
...House, that Greene was as eminent in composition as Handel. "That fellow, Freke," cried Hogarth, " is always shooting his bolt absurdly one way or another. Handel is a giant in music, Greene only a light Florimel kind of composer." " Aye, but " said the other, " Freke declared you were as good a portrait... | |
 | 1860 - 782 pages
...sometimes turn his chair round as if he had finished eating, and as suddenly would re-turn it and fall to his meal again." From Nichols, also, Hogarth's...absurdly one way or another. Handel is a giant in music ; Green only a light Florimel-kind of composer." " Ay," said his informant, " but, at the same time,... | |
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is always shooting his bolt absurdly, one way or another. Handel is a giant in music ; Greene only a light Florimel kind of a composer. ' ' Ay,' says our artist's informant, 
