...every grace, and whereon it depends, affectations and misapplications often follow. Action is a sort of language which perhaps, one time or other, may come to be taught by a kind of grammar rules; but, at present, is only got by rote and imitation: and, contrary to most other copyings...

...a facility in moving gracefully, yet for want of knowing the meaning of every grace, and whereonit depends, affectations and mifapplications often follow....rank and fortune generally excel their originals, the dancing-matters, in eafy behaviour and unaffected grace ; as a fenfe of fuperiority makes them act...

...intricacy" itself. In chapter seventeen of the Analysis, "Of Action," Hogarth remarks that "action is a sort of language which perhaps one time or other, may come to be taught by a kind of grammar-rules" (149). This language of action, like the English alphabet, finds its expression in lines; in a reversal...

...a strange mixture of the original and the doctrinaire. 'Action is a sort of language,' he observed, 'which perhaps one time or other may come to be taught by a kind of grammar rules.' He also said: 'Drawing and painting are a much more complicated form of writing.' Hogarth...