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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... others that embel- lish this publication , for the ceiling of a cabinet of the Hotel Lambert , at Paris . The figures are in proportion about three feet . BACON . THINE is a Bacon - hapless in his THE BIRTH OF LOVE .
... others that embel- lish this publication , for the ceiling of a cabinet of the Hotel Lambert , at Paris . The figures are in proportion about three feet . BACON . THINE is a Bacon - hapless in his THE BIRTH OF LOVE .
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... Paris for the purpose of superintending the works then carrying on at the Louvre , and the extraordinary honours that were paid him , when , after having with some difficulty ob- tained the pope's consent , he proceeded to Paris . He ...
... Paris for the purpose of superintending the works then carrying on at the Louvre , and the extraordinary honours that were paid him , when , after having with some difficulty ob- tained the pope's consent , he proceeded to Paris . He ...
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... Paris , in 1636. He was the eleventh son of Giles Boileau , register of the high court of Parliament . His infancy was by no means happy . His mother dying when young , and his father being wholly absorbed in business , he was abandoned ...
... Paris , in 1636. He was the eleventh son of Giles Boileau , register of the high court of Parliament . His infancy was by no means happy . His mother dying when young , and his father being wholly absorbed in business , he was abandoned ...
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... Paris under the reign of Phillip I. where he began his studies , and went through a course of philosophy and theology , with the most brilliant success . He had even obtained a pro- fessor's chair , when his attainments , his merit ...
... Paris under the reign of Phillip I. where he began his studies , and went through a course of philosophy and theology , with the most brilliant success . He had even obtained a pro- fessor's chair , when his attainments , his merit ...
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... Paris , is one which alone might atone for every other blemish . In her divine face the sublime purity of Niobe is mixed with the charms of Venus ; the wife , the mother , gave indeed way to the lover , but spread a soft melancholy ...
... Paris , is one which alone might atone for every other blemish . In her divine face the sublime purity of Niobe is mixed with the charms of Venus ; the wife , the mother , gave indeed way to the lover , but spread a soft melancholy ...
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