HOGARTH. 5

I soon found that blockheads with better
memories could much surpass me ; but for
the latter I was particularly distinguished.
" Besides the natural turn I had for draw-
ing rather than learning languages, I had
before my eyes the precarious situation of
men of classical education. I saw the dif-
ficulties under which my father laboured,
and the many inconveniences he endured,
from his dependance being chiefly on his
pen, and the cruel treatment he met with
from booksellers and printers, particularly in
the affair of a Latin dictionary,* the compil-
ing of which had been a work of some years.
It was deposited, in confidence, iii the hands

* The dictionary here alluded to, Mrs. Lewis, of
Chiswick, presented to the Editor of this volume. It is
a thick quarto, containing an early edition of Littleton's
Dictionary, and also Robertson's Phrases; with nu-
merous corrections to each, and about 400 pages of
manuscript close written. On the marginal leaf is
inscribed, in Hogarth's hand-writing: " The manu-
script part of this dictionary was the work of Mr. Richard
Hogarth." Another volume of this work is in the pos-
session of J. Bindley, Esq. of the Stamp-office.