The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... personages that occurs in history ; the strokes of his character are as open and strongly marked as the schemes of ... personage , some presage of his future grandeur , will find their experience contradicted , and ENGLAND ...
... personages that occurs in history ; the strokes of his character are as open and strongly marked as the schemes of ... personage , some presage of his future grandeur , will find their experience contradicted , and ENGLAND ...
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... person- ages of antiquity ? In contemplating the statue of De- mosthenes , we read in his countenance those clevated projects that generous inquietude which urged him to oppose the ambitious designs of Philip , that threatened the ruin ...
... person- ages of antiquity ? In contemplating the statue of De- mosthenes , we read in his countenance those clevated projects that generous inquietude which urged him to oppose the ambitious designs of Philip , that threatened the ruin ...
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... personages whom history is bound to record . Jane - Antonietta Poisson , so celebrated under the name of the Marchioness of Pompadour , born about the year 1720 , was the grand - daughter of the comedian Poisson . She owed her birth to ...
... personages whom history is bound to record . Jane - Antonietta Poisson , so celebrated under the name of the Marchioness of Pompadour , born about the year 1720 , was the grand - daughter of the comedian Poisson . She owed her birth to ...
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... personages in Flan- ders . The Archduke Leopold William made him Gentle- man of his Chamber , and presented him with his por- trait , enriched with diamonds . Christian of Sweden made him a similar present . The King of Spain had so ...
... personages in Flan- ders . The Archduke Leopold William made him Gentle- man of his Chamber , and presented him with his por- trait , enriched with diamonds . Christian of Sweden made him a similar present . The King of Spain had so ...
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... personages in Flan- ders . The Archduke Leopold William made him Gentle- man of his Chamber , and presented him with his por- trait , enriched with diamonds . Christian of Sweden made him a similar present . The King of Spain had so ...
... personages in Flan- ders . The Archduke Leopold William made him Gentle- man of his Chamber , and presented him with his por- trait , enriched with diamonds . Christian of Sweden made him a similar present . The King of Spain had so ...
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