The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... taste ; and as furiously condemned , by the authors whom the poet had criticized . To them succeeded his Epistles : and his Art Poetique , that complete code of the laws of Poetry , and one of the finest compositions of the French ...
... taste ; and as furiously condemned , by the authors whom the poet had criticized . To them succeeded his Epistles : and his Art Poetique , that complete code of the laws of Poetry , and one of the finest compositions of the French ...
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... 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 verses which he had composed ; " Sire , " answered the poet , " nothing is impossible to your ma ...
... 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 verses which he had composed ; " Sire , " answered the poet , " nothing is impossible to your ma ...
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... taste . " He must necessarily have been born , " says Vauvenargues , " with a very superior genius , to avoid the bad examples of his cotemporaries , and to impose upon them his decrees . Voltaire , speaking of Boileau , thus expresses ...
... taste . " He must necessarily have been born , " says Vauvenargues , " with a very superior genius , to avoid the bad examples of his cotemporaries , and to impose upon them his decrees . Voltaire , speaking of Boileau , thus expresses ...
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... taste was not able to obtain the rank which nature appears to have as- signed him . He studied for a time the graceful manner of Georgione , whom he imitated and surpassed ; but the desire of signalizing himself , led him to establish a ...
... taste was not able to obtain the rank which nature appears to have as- signed him . He studied for a time the graceful manner of Georgione , whom he imitated and surpassed ; but the desire of signalizing himself , led him to establish a ...
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... taste for literature . In his first successes he was indebted to the celebrated Father Porée - an excellent master , who perfectly understood the art of discovering the genius and character of his pupils , and the mode of displaying ...
... taste for literature . In his first successes he was indebted to the celebrated Father Porée - an excellent master , who perfectly understood the art of discovering the genius and character of his pupils , and the mode of displaying ...
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