Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . Hogarths declining health. The summerof 1764 he spent at Chiswick, and the free air and exercise worked a partialrenovation of his strength. The amendment, however, was but temporary;and he died suddenly on the 26th of October following, the day after his returnio his London residence in Leicester-square. 244 JAMES THOMSON. Hogarth ha
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . Hogarths declining health. The summerof 1764 he spent at Chiswick, and the free air and exercise worked a partialrenovation of his strength. The amendment, however, was but temporary;and he died suddenly on the 26th of October following, the day after his returnio his London residence in Leicester-square. 244 JAMES THOMSON. Hogarth has left a memoir of his own life, from which we have quotedwhich contains some curious, interesting, and instructive matter concerning hisown medes and motives of thought and action. He wrote verses occasionally,in a rough and familiar style, but not without some sparkles of his humorousturn. But his most remarkable performance is the Analysis of Beauty,composed with the view of fixing the principles of taste, and laying down un-erring directions for the student of art. Its leading principle is, that the ser-pentine line is the foundation of all that is beautiful, whether in nature or work unquestionably contains much that is original and JAMES THOMSON. THIS poet, the author of The Seasons, was one of nine children of RevThomas Thomson, minister of Ednam, a country parish near Kelso, in Scot-land, where he was born, September 11, 1700. Even while at school at theneighboring town of Jedburgh, he showed his poetic tendency by the composi-tion of verses, which attracted considerable attention among his companionsand the acquaintances of his family. He then proceeded to the University ofEdinburgh, without, as it would appear, having formed any steady purpose asto a profession, and at first devoted himself principally to the study of generalliterature; but having lost his father during his second years attendance, heconsented, on the persuasion of his friends, to e
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