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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... formed , deep , comprehensive , clear , Exact and elegant ; in one rich soul , Plato , the Stagyrite , and Tully joined , The great deliverer He ! who from the gloom Of cloistered monks and jargon - teaching schools , Led forth the true ...
... formed , deep , comprehensive , clear , Exact and elegant ; in one rich soul , Plato , the Stagyrite , and Tully joined , The great deliverer He ! who from the gloom Of cloistered monks and jargon - teaching schools , Led forth the true ...
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... formed upon the reserved disposi- tion of young Nicholas , was soon discovered to be ill- founded . He was only fourteen years of age when his talent for poetry developed itself . His father intended him for the bar ; but , becoming ...
... formed upon the reserved disposi- tion of young Nicholas , was soon discovered to be ill- founded . He was only fourteen years of age when his talent for poetry developed itself . His father intended him for the bar ; but , becoming ...
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... formed the re- solution to retire from the world , and to seclude him- self in some secret reccess , for the remainder of his days . His first habitation was at Saisse - Fontaine , in the neigh- bourhood of Langres . From thence , in ...
... formed the re- solution to retire from the world , and to seclude him- self in some secret reccess , for the remainder of his days . His first habitation was at Saisse - Fontaine , in the neigh- bourhood of Langres . From thence , in ...
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... forming them- selves on the mountain's top . " - And , in a letter to his friend West , he says , with his wonted enthusiasm , “ In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse , I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an ...
... forming them- selves on the mountain's top . " - And , in a letter to his friend West , he says , with his wonted enthusiasm , “ In our little journey up to the Grande Chartreuse , I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an ...
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... formed , in opposition to that at Westminster . But Cromwell , whose dissimulation was now at its height , while he was thus establishing a new assembly of repre- sentatives , professed the utmost devotion to the old one . He conducted ...
... formed , in opposition to that at Westminster . But Cromwell , whose dissimulation was now at its height , while he was thus establishing a new assembly of repre- sentatives , professed the utmost devotion to the old one . He conducted ...
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