The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... poetry , and composed some verses con- taining the precepts of his morality , and rules for the conduct of life . It was one of his maxims , that those who knew what friendship was , would much rather hear a brilliant than a solid ...
... poetry , and composed some verses con- taining the precepts of his morality , and rules for the conduct of life . It was one of his maxims , that those who knew what friendship was , would much rather hear a brilliant than a solid ...
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... poetry developed itself . His father intended him for the bar ; but , becoming soon disgusted with the study of the law , he directed his thoughts to the church , to which he shortly after conceived a dislike . Boileau , equally ...
... poetry developed itself . His father intended him for the bar ; but , becoming soon disgusted with the study of the law , he directed his thoughts to the church , to which he shortly after conceived a dislike . Boileau , equally ...
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... poetry to the king , and in the presence of Mad . de Maintenon- " Happily , " said he , " the taste for such productions is gone by ; and Scarron even is only read in the provinces . " His opinion being asked by Louis XIV . upon some ...
... poetry to the king , and in the presence of Mad . de Maintenon- " Happily , " said he , " the taste for such productions is gone by ; and Scarron even is only read in the provinces . " His opinion being asked by Louis XIV . upon some ...
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... poetry . Mad . de Sévigné used to say to him , " You are tender in prose , and cruel in verse . " Boileau , from his entrance into the republic of letters , may be considered as the reformer and legislator of the French Parnassus ...
... poetry . Mad . de Sévigné used to say to him , " You are tender in prose , and cruel in verse . " Boileau , from his entrance into the republic of letters , may be considered as the reformer and legislator of the French Parnassus ...
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... poetry , which had been communicated to him by Racine , of whom he acquired the art of making difficult rhymes . But this difficulty was concealed by the illustrious Trage- dian , under the charm of a versification ever flowing and ...
... poetry , which had been communicated to him by Racine , of whom he acquired the art of making difficult rhymes . But this difficulty was concealed by the illustrious Trage- dian , under the charm of a versification ever flowing and ...
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