...frequent turns, and difficulties, and disappointments, that are daily met with in the pursuit?—how joyless does the sportsman return when the hare has...increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleased when that is most distinctly unravelled? Intricacy in form, therefore, I shall define to be that peculiarity...

...pursues; and even cats will risk the losing of their prey to chase it over again. It is a pleasing labor of the mind to solve the most difficult problems;...increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleased, when that is most distinctly unravelled! The eye has this sort of enjoyment in winding walks, and serpentine...

...lofing of their prey to chafe it over again. It is a pleafing labour of the mind to folve the moft difficult problems ; allegories and riddles, trifling as they are, afford the mind amufement : and with what delight does it follow the wellconne&ed thread of a play, or novel, which...

...power to advance conclusions and, above all, of the viewer's insistent delight in drawing them out: It is a pleasing labour of the mind to solve the most...ever increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleas'd, when it is most distinctly unravell'd?51 Hogarth takes narrative understanding as a cultural...

...pursuit, is implanted in our natures, and design'd, no doubt, tor necessary and useful pur poses. ... It is a pleasing labour of the mind to solve the most...it follow the well-connected thread of a play, or a novel which ever increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleased, when that is most distinctly...

...recreation. El' . .1 This love of pursuit, merely as pursuit, is implanted in our natures, and design'd, no doubt, for necessary, and useful purposes. Animals...ever increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleas'd, when that is most distinctly unravell'd? The eye hath this sort of enjoyment in winding walks,...

...on canvas, 163 Xjo6 cm. Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg/Bildarchiv. chase it over again. It is a pleasing labour of the...ever increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleas'd, when that is most distinctly unravell'd? 93 Hogarth also clarifies the connection between...

...of the private, homoerotic context of the entire cantata repertory. Epilogue: "True Representation" Allegories and riddles, trifling as they are, afford...ever increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleas'd, when that is most distinctly unravell'd? William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty After Handel...

...for the reader of the picaresque novel. Hogarth himself suggests the analogy: "It is a pleasing labor of the mind to solve the most difficult problems;...increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleased, when that is most distinctly unravelled!" (49-50). 127. The Delightful History of Fortunatus (London:...

...Bellmour to enjoy the prey Vainlove has seduced.48 But, as we might expect of the author of the Harlot, "It is a pleasing labour of the mind to solve the most difficult problems; . . . with what delight does it follow the well-connected thread of a play, or novel, which ever increases...