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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... taste ; and as furiously condemned , by the authors whom the poet had criticised . To them succeeded his Epistles : and his Art Poetique , —that complete code of the laws of Poetry , and one of the finest compositions of the French ...
... taste ; and as furiously condemned , by the authors whom the poet had criticised . To them succeeded his Epistles : and his Art Poetique , —that complete code of the laws of Poetry , and one of the finest compositions of the French ...
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... taste for such productions is gone by ; and Scarron even is only read in the provinces . " His opinion being asked by Louis XIV . upon some verses which he had composed ; " Sire , " answered the poet , " nothing is impossible to your Ma ...
... taste for such productions is gone by ; and Scarron even is only read in the provinces . " His opinion being asked by Louis XIV . upon some verses which he had composed ; " Sire , " answered the poet , " nothing is impossible to your Ma ...
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... taste . " He must necessarily have been born , " says Vauvernargues , “ with a very superior genius , to avoid the bad examples of his cotemporaries , and to impose upon them his decrees . Voltaire , speaking of Boileau , thus expresses ...
... taste . " He must necessarily have been born , " says Vauvernargues , “ with a very superior genius , to avoid the bad examples of his cotemporaries , and to impose upon them his decrees . Voltaire , speaking of Boileau , thus expresses ...
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... taste was not able to obtain the rank which nature appears to have as- signed him . He studied for a time the graceful manner of Georgione , whom he imitated and surpassed ; but the desire of signalizing himself , led him to establish a ...
... taste was not able to obtain the rank which nature appears to have as- signed him . He studied for a time the graceful manner of Georgione , whom he imitated and surpassed ; but the desire of signalizing himself , led him to establish a ...
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... taste for literature . In his first successes he was indebted to the celebrated Father Porée an excellent master , who perfectly under- stood the art of discovering the genius and character of his pupils , and the mode of displaying ...
... taste for literature . In his first successes he was indebted to the celebrated Father Porée an excellent master , who perfectly under- stood the art of discovering the genius and character of his pupils , and the mode of displaying ...
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