The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volumen6Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 |
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... taste for this sort of decoration . His idea was so favorably received , that he was immediately engaged to paint the interior of several palaces , where he represented the various subjects of the metamorphoses and loves of the gods ...
... taste for this sort of decoration . His idea was so favorably received , that he was immediately engaged to paint the interior of several palaces , where he represented the various subjects of the metamorphoses and loves of the gods ...
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... poet , could dispose his matter according to his own taste . Far from reproaching Thucydides , for recording deplorable events , we ought rather to commend him , for + giving to his countrymen important lessons , by displaying.
... poet , could dispose his matter according to his own taste . Far from reproaching Thucydides , for recording deplorable events , we ought rather to commend him , for + giving to his countrymen important lessons , by displaying.
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... taste , and found detractors in those of less judgment - in supporters of contradiction and of paradox . We well know what was the fate of Zoilus ; his existence was des- " GREECE . ] HOMER . picable and unhappy ; and HOMER . [ GREECE .
... taste , and found detractors in those of less judgment - in supporters of contradiction and of paradox . We well know what was the fate of Zoilus ; his existence was des- " GREECE . ] HOMER . picable and unhappy ; and HOMER . [ GREECE .
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... taste , and philosophy , appear combined . Of the merits of his version it is un- necessary to speak ; it is an eternal monument of the genius and the industry of Pope . : Homer possesses all the resources of the figurative style , and ...
... taste , and philosophy , appear combined . Of the merits of his version it is un- necessary to speak ; it is an eternal monument of the genius and the industry of Pope . : Homer possesses all the resources of the figurative style , and ...
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... taste for study and agricultural pursuits . He cultivated his garden , collect- ed foreign plants , familiarized them to the climate , shed upon them the sun of France , and lived as a private man , a scholar , and a philosopher , in ...
... taste for study and agricultural pursuits . He cultivated his garden , collect- ed foreign plants , familiarized them to the climate , shed upon them the sun of France , and lived as a private man , a scholar , and a philosopher , in ...
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