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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... admiration of Voltaire , and the critical sagacity of D'Alembert , than by any efforts of our own , much as we are accustomed to applaud our great countryman , and to venerate his name . But his reputation , even in his life - time ...
... admiration of Voltaire , and the critical sagacity of D'Alembert , than by any efforts of our own , much as we are accustomed to applaud our great countryman , and to venerate his name . But his reputation , even in his life - time ...
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... admiration of his king to a degree of enthusiasm : he applauded his actions with delicacy and sincerity ; but was at court , as in other places , inflexible in his principles in all matters relative to the Belles Lettres ; and carried ...
... admiration of his king to a degree of enthusiasm : he applauded his actions with delicacy and sincerity ; but was at court , as in other places , inflexible in his principles in all matters relative to the Belles Lettres ; and carried ...
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... admiration of his success and of his genius . Those who imagine they can trace , in every action of an extraordinary personage , some presage of his future grandeur , will find their experience contradicted , and their discernment of no ...
... admiration of his success and of his genius . Those who imagine they can trace , in every action of an extraordinary personage , some presage of his future grandeur , will find their experience contradicted , and their discernment of no ...
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... admirable landscape painter , a good engraver , and most tasteful musician . He with great reason , confined the Graces to one family , to which Gessner was admitted . We behold in him at the same time the faithful friend , the good ...
... admirable landscape painter , a good engraver , and most tasteful musician . He with great reason , confined the Graces to one family , to which Gessner was admitted . We behold in him at the same time the faithful friend , the good ...
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... admirable , while the disposition of his objects in general , and his colour- ing , demand peculiar praise . But it was in the delinea- tion of pathetic , tender , and devout subjects , that he particularly excelled , and claims ...
... admirable , while the disposition of his objects in general , and his colour- ing , demand peculiar praise . But it was in the delinea- tion of pathetic , tender , and devout subjects , that he particularly excelled , and claims ...
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