The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volumen2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 |
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... Voltaire , " by the representation of the Misanthrope , may probably be thus accounted for : that the plot , though accom- panied by innumerable beauties of detail , is not in itself sufficiently diversified ; the conversations ...
... Voltaire , " by the representation of the Misanthrope , may probably be thus accounted for : that the plot , though accom- panied by innumerable beauties of detail , is not in itself sufficiently diversified ; the conversations ...
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... Voltaire , imitated in a manner which shewed how the originals ought to have been written . The suc- cess of this work exceeded all former examples . The very title was sufficient to procure the sale of the most wretched productions ...
... Voltaire , imitated in a manner which shewed how the originals ought to have been written . The suc- cess of this work exceeded all former examples . The very title was sufficient to procure the sale of the most wretched productions ...
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... Voltaire , Montesquieu caused a new edition to be prepared , in which these ob- noxious passages were omitted ; and that he presented a copy to the cardinal , who perused it , and immediately consented to his admission . But this ...
... Voltaire , Montesquieu caused a new edition to be prepared , in which these ob- noxious passages were omitted ; and that he presented a copy to the cardinal , who perused it , and immediately consented to his admission . But this ...
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... Voltaire , " had lost all recollection of its rights ; Montesquieu discovered and restored them . " But the success of this elaborate and original perform- ance could not be supposed ever to equal that of the Per- sian Letters . Its ...
... Voltaire , " had lost all recollection of its rights ; Montesquieu discovered and restored them . " But the success of this elaborate and original perform- ance could not be supposed ever to equal that of the Per- sian Letters . Its ...
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... Voltaire was extremely irksome to him -and whenever that reflection was obtruded on his mind , it appeared to lose much of its usual sagacity . Thus , when he called his Gustavus the only remaining tragedy of the age , he , who was in ...
... Voltaire was extremely irksome to him -and whenever that reflection was obtruded on his mind , it appeared to lose much of its usual sagacity . Thus , when he called his Gustavus the only remaining tragedy of the age , he , who was in ...
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