The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings; Or, Biographical Review:: Containing a Brief Account of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Men, in Every Age and Country; and Graphic Imitations of the Finest Specimens of the Arts; Ancient and Modern, with Remarks, Critical and Explanatory ....Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe ... at the Union Printing-Office, 1812 |
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... Molière . Montesquieu . Piron . Pompadour , Mad . de . Raphael . Rembrandt . Romano , Julio . Rosa , Salvator . Diogenes . Gesner . Stanislaus . Guido Reni . Strafford . Helvetius . Teniers . Jonson , Ben . Vandyck . Voltaire . Kouli ...
... Molière . Montesquieu . Piron . Pompadour , Mad . de . Raphael . Rembrandt . Romano , Julio . Rosa , Salvator . Diogenes . Gesner . Stanislaus . Guido Reni . Strafford . Helvetius . Teniers . Jonson , Ben . Vandyck . Voltaire . Kouli ...
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... order of Innocent X , the superb fountain in the Piazza Navora ; and , by command of Alexander VII . the celebrated colonnade of St. Peter , the pulpit placed at the BACON, Sir Francis Molière Bias Montesquieu Bernini.
... order of Innocent X , the superb fountain in the Piazza Navora ; and , by command of Alexander VII . the celebrated colonnade of St. Peter , the pulpit placed at the BACON, Sir Francis Molière Bias Montesquieu Bernini.
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... Moliere : the rest have written nothing but farces , like the wretched pieces of Scarron . " Another time , declaiming against burlesque poetry to the king , and in the presence of Mad . de Maintenon- " Happily , " said he , " the taste ...
... Moliere : the rest have written nothing but farces , like the wretched pieces of Scarron . " Another time , declaiming against burlesque poetry to the king , and in the presence of Mad . de Maintenon- " Happily , " said he , " the taste ...
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... Moliére it may be said , his best eulogy is from a comparison of the authors who preceded , and of those who followed him : so much superior is he to all . How many men of undoubted wit and talents have laboured in the same career ...
... Moliére it may be said , his best eulogy is from a comparison of the authors who preceded , and of those who followed him : so much superior is he to all . How many men of undoubted wit and talents have laboured in the same career ...
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... Moliére was the son and grandson of tapestry - weavers attatched to the king's household . His father intending him ... MOLIERE . exhibiting on the national stage MOLIERE . [ FRANCE .
... Moliére was the son and grandson of tapestry - weavers attatched to the king's household . His father intending him ... MOLIERE . exhibiting on the national stage MOLIERE . [ FRANCE .
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