The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... admirable landscape painter , a good engraver , and most tasteful musician . He , with great reason , confined the Graces to one family , to which Gessner was admitted . We behold in him at the same time the faithful friend , the good ...
... admirable landscape painter , a good engraver , and most tasteful musician . He , with great reason , confined the Graces to one family , to which Gessner was admitted . We behold in him at the same time the faithful friend , the good ...
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... admirable , while the disposition of his objects in general , and his colour- ing , demand peculiar praise . But it was in the delinea- tion of pathetic , tender , and devout subjects , that he particularly excelled , and claims ...
... admirable , while the disposition of his objects in general , and his colour- ing , demand peculiar praise . But it was in the delinea- tion of pathetic , tender , and devout subjects , that he particularly excelled , and claims ...
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... admirable play, little applauded at first through ignorance or envy, but now considered as one of the first in the ancient or modern drama. It must be admitted, however, that it is more generally admired in the closet than on the stage ...
... admirable play, little applauded at first through ignorance or envy, but now considered as one of the first in the ancient or modern drama. It must be admitted, however, that it is more generally admired in the closet than on the stage ...
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... admirable penetration , than with the cor- responding qualities or defects we feel in ourselves , and which ignorance or vanity had before concealed from our observation . His satire is profound and severe , not light and trivial ; it ...
... admirable penetration , than with the cor- responding qualities or defects we feel in ourselves , and which ignorance or vanity had before concealed from our observation . His satire is profound and severe , not light and trivial ; it ...
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... admirable play , little applauded at first through ignorance or envy , but now considered as one of the first in the ancient or modern drama . It must be admitted , however , that it is more generally admired in the closet than on the ...
... admirable play , little applauded at first through ignorance or envy , but now considered as one of the first in the ancient or modern drama . It must be admitted , however , that it is more generally admired in the closet than on the ...
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