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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... 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 for such productions is gone by ; and Scarron even is only read in the ...
... 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 for such productions is gone by ; and Scarron even is only read in the ...
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... piece considerable success , notwithstanding its numerous defects . Moliére , equally great as author and actor , united every suffrage . At that period , people were accustomed only to pieces of the most immoral or insignificant ...
... piece considerable success , notwithstanding its numerous defects . Moliére , equally great as author and actor , united every suffrage . At that period , people were accustomed only to pieces of the most immoral or insignificant ...
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... piece from the preceding ones , and marks at once the talent of Moliére . When repre- sented at Paris , it produced ... pieces exhibited by the company of Moliére , that he permitted I them to call themselves the King's Comedians , ' and.
... piece from the preceding ones , and marks at once the talent of Moliére . When repre- sented at Paris , it produced ... pieces exhibited by the company of Moliére , that he permitted I them to call themselves the King's Comedians , ' and.
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... piece , but it exposed him to all the severity of the critics , who were however little attended to by the public at large . L'Ecole des Maris , taken from the Adelphi of Terence , but superior to the original , presents a denouement ...
... piece , but it exposed him to all the severity of the critics , who were however little attended to by the public at large . L'Ecole des Maris , taken from the Adelphi of Terence , but superior to the original , presents a denouement ...
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... piece of the same description , met with a similar fate . The Festin de Pierre did not meet with better success ; some expressions of a nature bordering on impiety , in some degree injured the reputation of Moliére , and he withdrew the ...
... piece of the same description , met with a similar fate . The Festin de Pierre did not meet with better success ; some expressions of a nature bordering on impiety , in some degree injured the reputation of Moliére , and he withdrew the ...
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