The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1816 - Biography |
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... admired produc- tions of art in that capital . Such are his celebrated picture of the Death of St. Anne , in the church of S. Carlo à Ca- tinari ; the Angel appearing to St. Joseph , the principal altar - piece in S. Giuseppe à Capo le ...
... admired produc- tions of art in that capital . Such are his celebrated picture of the Death of St. Anne , in the church of S. Carlo à Ca- tinari ; the Angel appearing to St. Joseph , the principal altar - piece in S. Giuseppe à Capo le ...
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... , so masterly , yet so new and natural , that : there was nothing left for criticism to censure , though in- numerable beauties to point out and admire . He had a tasté so exquisite , and so totally free from pedantry 12 SACCHINI .
... , so masterly , yet so new and natural , that : there was nothing left for criticism to censure , though in- numerable beauties to point out and admire . He had a tasté so exquisite , and so totally free from pedantry 12 SACCHINI .
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... wrought character of him , in the dedication of his poems to his son , the first duke of Dorset , is to this day admired as a master - piece . He says , " The brightness 1 " of his parts , the solidity of his judgment SACKVILLE . 21.
... wrought character of him , in the dedication of his poems to his son , the first duke of Dorset , is to this day admired as a master - piece . He says , " The brightness 1 " of his parts , the solidity of his judgment SACKVILLE . 21.
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... admired for his wise sayings and his wit . He is said to have lived an hundred and twenty years , that is , to the year 1295 , but different dates are assigned , some making him born in 1193 , and die in 1312 . He composed such a ...
... admired for his wise sayings and his wit . He is said to have lived an hundred and twenty years , that is , to the year 1295 , but different dates are assigned , some making him born in 1193 , and die in 1312 . He composed such a ...
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... admired his virtues . Returning to Edinburgh in 1695 , where he appears to have written some defences of the church to which he belonged , he was observed , and obliged again to retire . At length he found At length he found a safe ...
... admired his virtues . Returning to Edinburgh in 1695 , where he appears to have written some defences of the church to which he belonged , he was observed , and obliged again to retire . At length he found At length he found a safe ...
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Page 440 - What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! Before his sacred name flies every fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought.
Page 328 - ... his humanity, courtesy, and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity, and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.
Page 370 - ... he should conceal his plan of life, or place of residence, from those who, if he found himself distressed, could not fail to afford him such supplies as would have set him above the necessity of holding horses for subsistence." Mr. Malone has remarked, in his " attempt to ascertain the order in which the Plays of Shakspeare were written...
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