Leicester Square: Its Associations and Its WorthiesBickers and Son, 1874 - 495 pages |
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Page 307 - ... I was tempted to abandon the only lucrative branch of the art; for the practice brought the whole nest of phyzmongers on my back, where they buzzed like so many hornets. All those people had their friends, whom they incessantly taught to call my women harlots—my Essay on Beauty borrowed—and my engraving contemptible. This so much disgusted me that I sometimes declared I would never paint another portrait, and frequently refused when applied to; for 1 found, by mortifying experience, that...