The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... pieces of Scarron . " Another time , declaiming against burlesque poetry to the king , and in the presence of Mad . de Maintenon- " Happily , " said he , “ the taste for such productions is gone by ; and Scarron even is only read in the ...
... pieces of Scarron . " Another time , declaiming against burlesque poetry to the king , and in the presence of Mad . de Maintenon- " Happily , " said he , “ the taste for such productions is gone by ; and Scarron even is only read in the ...
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... piece of the same description, met with a similar fate. The Festin de Pierre did not meet with better success ; some expressions of a nature bordering on impiety, in some degree injured the reputation of Moliere, and he withdrew the piece ...
... piece of the same description, met with a similar fate. The Festin de Pierre did not meet with better success ; some expressions of a nature bordering on impiety, in some degree injured the reputation of Moliere, and he withdrew the piece ...
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... piece considerable success , notwithstanding its numerous defects . Moliére , equally great as author and actor , united every suffrage . At that period , people were accustomed only to pieces of the most immoral or insignificant ...
... piece considerable success , notwithstanding its numerous defects . Moliére , equally great as author and actor , united every suffrage . At that period , people were accustomed only to pieces of the most immoral or insignificant ...
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... piece from the preceding ones , and marks at once the talent of Moliére . When repre- sented at Paris , it produced ... pieces ex- hibited by the company of Moliére , that he permitted them to call themselves the King's Comedians , ' and.
... piece from the preceding ones , and marks at once the talent of Moliére . When repre- sented at Paris , it produced ... pieces ex- hibited by the company of Moliére , that he permitted them to call themselves the King's Comedians , ' and.
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... piece , but it exposed him to all the severity of the critics , who were however little attended to by the public at large . L ' Ecole des Maris , taken from the Adelphi of Terence , but superior to the original , presents a denouement ...
... piece , but it exposed him to all the severity of the critics , who were however little attended to by the public at large . L ' Ecole des Maris , taken from the Adelphi of Terence , but superior to the original , presents a denouement ...
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