The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... endeavoured to surmount his many deficiencies . His voice was low and thick , and possessing little flexibility , forced him to con- fine himself to comedy , in which he contrived to make his defects serviceable to him . He not only ...
... endeavoured to surmount his many deficiencies . His voice was low and thick , and possessing little flexibility , forced him to con- fine himself to comedy , in which he contrived to make his defects serviceable to him . He not only ...
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... endeavoured , not without some suc- cess , to remove . He well knew and justly admired the happy constitution of this country , where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny , and freedom from licentiousness . His ...
... endeavoured , not without some suc- cess , to remove . He well knew and justly admired the happy constitution of this country , where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny , and freedom from licentiousness . His ...
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... which , when in health , he had not been remarkable . Perhaps the painful recollection of the disappointments he had experienced in consequence of the licentious production of his youth , 1 and which he had in vain endeavoured to consign ...
... which , when in health , he had not been remarkable . Perhaps the painful recollection of the disappointments he had experienced in consequence of the licentious production of his youth , 1 and which he had in vain endeavoured to consign ...
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Or, Biographical Review. and which he had in vain endeavoured to consign to ob- livion , had a decided and useful influence in his last mo- ments . And we may venture to add , that if he did display sentiments of piety and contrition ...
Or, Biographical Review. and which he had in vain endeavoured to consign to ob- livion , had a decided and useful influence in his last mo- ments . And we may venture to add , that if he did display sentiments of piety and contrition ...
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... endeavoured to imitate him in grace ; but when death deprived him of his immortal guide , he at times forgot his lessons , and shewed himself dry , and frequently grotesque . Still in his compositions , and in his style , he was always ...
... endeavoured to imitate him in grace ; but when death deprived him of his immortal guide , he at times forgot his lessons , and shewed himself dry , and frequently grotesque . Still in his compositions , and in his style , he was always ...
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