The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... Metromania , a chef - d'œuvre in its kind , has placed him among the few who have succeeded best in that career which the celebrity and excellence of Moliére have rendered so dif- ficult . Dijon , a city which has produced several ...
... Metromania , a chef - d'œuvre in its kind , has placed him among the few who have succeeded best in that career which the celebrity and excellence of Moliére have rendered so dif- ficult . Dijon , a city which has produced several ...
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... Metro- mania . If his many excellent qualities were obscured by any particular defect , it was perhaps by too exalted an opinion of his own merit . It is well known , that the high celebrity of Voltaire was extremely irksome to him -and ...
... Metro- mania . If his many excellent qualities were obscured by any particular defect , it was perhaps by too exalted an opinion of his own merit . It is well known , that the high celebrity of Voltaire was extremely irksome to him -and ...
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... Metromania , we omit even the name of the pernicious and immoral publication which excited the animadversion of the academicians , we cannot but applaud them for sacrificing to a sense of propriety , their earnest desire to enroll among ...
... Metromania , we omit even the name of the pernicious and immoral publication which excited the animadversion of the academicians , we cannot but applaud them for sacrificing to a sense of propriety , their earnest desire to enroll among ...
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