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The amazing web site of Shakespeare's Sonnets. The Midnight Conversation, by Hogarth.
HAKESPEARE'S ONNETS
This is part of the web site of Shakespeare's sonnets
PICTURE GALLERY.
William Hogarth 1697 - 1764.
The
Midnight Conversation 1732.
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company are supposed to have assembled at a tavern to discuss literary
and political questions in a friendly and sociable manner. But
clearly it develops into a very bibulous evening. Several
characters have been identified. Parson Henley of Clare Market
presides and ladles out the punch. Kettleby, a well known lawyer of the
time who is supposed to have a squint and a sardonic smile (possibly
the figure to the left of the punch bowl) has his ear bent by perhaps
one of his clients. A gentleman or an officer has fallen off his
chair in a drunken stupor and has lost his wig. The editor of a
newspaper has almost set himself alight. And so on.
Originally the following verse was appended to the print: Think not to find one meant resemblance here, We lash the Vices but the Persons spare. Prints should be priz'd, as Authors should be read Who sharply smile prevailing Folly dead. So Rabiaes laught, and so Cervantes thought, So Nature dictated what Art has taught. |
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