The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... Molière . Bias . Montesquieu . leesty Bernini . Boileau . Piron . ÷ St. Bruno . Pompadour , Mad . del Caravaggio , M. A. M. da . Raphael . Cromwell . Rembrandt . Romano , Julio . Diogenes . Rosa , Salvator . Gessner . Stanislaus ...
... Molière . Bias . Montesquieu . leesty Bernini . Boileau . Piron . ÷ St. Bruno . Pompadour , Mad . del Caravaggio , M. A. M. da . Raphael . Cromwell . Rembrandt . Romano , Julio . Diogenes . Rosa , Salvator . Gessner . Stanislaus ...
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... Moliere : the rest have written nothing but farces , like the wretched 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 ...
... Moliere : the rest have written nothing but farces , like the wretched 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 ...
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... : but they were in- ferior to himself . He engraved in aquafortis , an excellent collection of his compositions . His smaller pictures are the most esteemed . 1 THE AS TOR NY BRARY MOLIEKE . H1 MOLIERE . LAIRESSE . [ FRANCE .
... : but they were in- ferior to himself . He engraved in aquafortis , an excellent collection of his compositions . His smaller pictures are the most esteemed . 1 THE AS TOR NY BRARY MOLIEKE . H1 MOLIERE . LAIRESSE . [ FRANCE .
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