The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... Voltaire . Kouli Khan . Wickliffe . Lavater . Winckelman . Lairesse . PICTURES , WITH REMARKS CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY . The Martyrdom of St. Stephen Le Brun . The Entry of Alexander the Great into Babylon Ditto . The Death of ...
... Voltaire . Kouli Khan . Wickliffe . Lavater . Winckelman . Lairesse . PICTURES , WITH REMARKS CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY . The Martyrdom of St. Stephen Le Brun . The Entry of Alexander the Great into Babylon Ditto . The Death of ...
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... Voltaire , and the critical sagacity of D'Alembert , than by any efforts of our own , much as we are accustomed to applaud our great countryman , and to venerate his name . But his reputation , even in his life - time , had spread far ...
... Voltaire , and the critical sagacity of D'Alembert , than by any efforts of our own , much as we are accustomed to applaud our great countryman , and to venerate his name . But his reputation , even in his life - time , had spread far ...
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... Voltaire assigned to Boileau in the Temple du Goût , among the great writers of the age of Louis XIV . has been ratified by posterity : it was fixed indeed during his life - time , and it is a remarkable instance of good fortune that ...
... Voltaire assigned to Boileau in the Temple du Goût , among the great writers of the age of Louis XIV . has been ratified by posterity : it was fixed indeed during his life - time , and it is a remarkable instance of good fortune that ...
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... Voltaire , that surprising man , who combined such singu- lar talents with such malignity , who was alternately su- blime and facetious , announced , it is said , this wonder- ful contrast . It partook at once of the eagle and the ape ...
... Voltaire , that surprising man , who combined such singu- lar talents with such malignity , who was alternately su- blime and facetious , announced , it is said , this wonder- ful contrast . It partook at once of the eagle and the ape ...
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... Voltaire, " by the representation of the Misanthrope, may probably be thus accounted for: that the plot, though accompanied by innumerable beauties of detail, is not in itself sufficiently diversified ; the conversations, however ...
... Voltaire, " by the representation of the Misanthrope, may probably be thus accounted for: that the plot, though accompanied by innumerable beauties of detail, is not in itself sufficiently diversified ; the conversations, however ...
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