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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... equal to his poetry . Mad . de Sévigné used to say to him , " You are tender in prose and cruel in verse . " Boileau , from his entrance into the republic of letters , may be considered as the reformer and legislator of the French ...
... equal to his poetry . Mad . de Sévigné used to say to him , " You are tender in prose and cruel in verse . " Boileau , from his entrance into the republic of letters , may be considered as the reformer and legislator of the French ...
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... equal to Horace ; but he has been reproached for not sufficiently varying his phrases , either in prose or verse . He has been likewise censured , not indeed for condemning the voluptuous morality of Quinault , but for not having ...
... equal to Horace ; but he has been reproached for not sufficiently varying his phrases , either in prose or verse . He has been likewise censured , not indeed for condemning the voluptuous morality of Quinault , but for not having ...
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... equal the sprightliness and the delicacy of his Idyllia . This species of poetry he carried to the highest pitch of perfection . More varied than Theocritus , more interesting than Sannazarius , Gessner gave to her the most striking ...
... equal the sprightliness and the delicacy of his Idyllia . This species of poetry he carried to the highest pitch of perfection . More varied than Theocritus , more interesting than Sannazarius , Gessner gave to her the most striking ...
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... equal to him in judgment ; and it may be truly said , that in point of effect , in delicacy of idea , in elegance of design , and freedom of pencil , he has been rarely sur- passed . In the graceful airs of his heads , and the beau ...
... equal to him in judgment ; and it may be truly said , that in point of effect , in delicacy of idea , in elegance of design , and freedom of pencil , he has been rarely sur- passed . In the graceful airs of his heads , and the beau ...
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... equal portion of celebrity . He was undoubtedly the first of moral philosophers . It was he who best understood the heart of man , without appearing to observe it ; this was a knowledge which he obtained rather from intuition than study ...
... equal portion of celebrity . He was undoubtedly the first of moral philosophers . It was he who best understood the heart of man , without appearing to observe it ; this was a knowledge which he obtained rather from intuition than study ...
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