The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... hand of this celebrated artist , making him a present of his portrait encircled with diamonds . Bernini , at this moment , displayed at Versailles all the address of a cour- tier . While drawing the portrait of Louis XIV . he placed a ...
... hand of this celebrated artist , making him a present of his portrait encircled with diamonds . Bernini , at this moment , displayed at Versailles all the address of a cour- tier . While drawing the portrait of Louis XIV . he placed a ...
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... hand is the rock , with woods of pine - trees hanging over - head ; on the other a monstrous precipice , almost perpendicular , at the bot- tom of which rolls a torrent , that sometimes tumbling among the fragments of stone that have ...
... hand is the rock , with woods of pine - trees hanging over - head ; on the other a monstrous precipice , almost perpendicular , at the bot- tom of which rolls a torrent , that sometimes tumbling among the fragments of stone that have ...
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... hands of Cromwell , who established a military government , and was himself solemnly inaugurated as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England . When the ambitious desires of Cromwell were thus finally gratified , and he had seated ...
... hands of Cromwell , who established a military government , and was himself solemnly inaugurated as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England . When the ambitious desires of Cromwell were thus finally gratified , and he had seated ...
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... hand . Having requested a cor- ner in a house to retire to at night , upon some difficulties being started , he obtained a tub , in which he took up his abode . This he rolled before him wherever he went . In this singular dwelling he ...
... hand . Having requested a cor- ner in a house to retire to at night , upon some difficulties being started , he obtained a tub , in which he took up his abode . This he rolled before him wherever he went . In this singular dwelling he ...
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... hand . We also owe to this poet Daphne , or the First Navigator . " If the severe fidelity of history , " says a critic , " considers the thirst of wealth as the origin of navigation , it belonged to the fertile imagina- tion of the ...
... hand . We also owe to this poet Daphne , or the First Navigator . " If the severe fidelity of history , " says a critic , " considers the thirst of wealth as the origin of navigation , it belonged to the fertile imagina- tion of the ...
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