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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... style of delicate flat . tery , far beyond his years , " that he was two years younger than her majesty's happy administration . " He was en- tered of Trinity College , Cambridge , under the learned Whitgift , afterwards Archbishop of ...
... style of delicate flat . tery , far beyond his years , " that he was two years younger than her majesty's happy administration . " He was en- tered of Trinity College , Cambridge , under the learned Whitgift , afterwards Archbishop of ...
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... style is often rigid and pedantic , and he seems to be the original of those pointed similies and long - spun allegories which distinguish the authors of that age . A life of this illustrious man has long been considered a desideratum ...
... style is often rigid and pedantic , and he seems to be the original of those pointed similies and long - spun allegories which distinguish the authors of that age . A life of this illustrious man has long been considered a desideratum ...
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... style ; and is regarded as the founder of its poetic school . Not contented with combining in his own compositions truth with poetry , he taught his art to others upon the principles of true taste . " He must necessarily have been born ...
... style ; and is regarded as the founder of its poetic school . Not contented with combining in his own compositions truth with poetry , he taught his art to others upon the principles of true taste . " He must necessarily have been born ...
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... style of his own , in which energy and truth appear more con- spicuous than variety and manner . Little solicitous to please , he strove to astonish , and attained his aim by the extravagant opposition to light and shade . The seduc ...
... style of his own , in which energy and truth appear more con- spicuous than variety and manner . Little solicitous to please , he strove to astonish , and attained his aim by the extravagant opposition to light and shade . The seduc ...
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... style of speaking , form one of the most singular contrasts ever known . The very narrow limits to which we are confined , will enable us to present only a few observations upon this extraordinary man , with a rapid detail of his most ...
... style of speaking , form one of the most singular contrasts ever known . The very narrow limits to which we are confined , will enable us to present only a few observations upon this extraordinary man , with a rapid detail of his most ...
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