The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 4G. Berger, 1868 - Anecdotes |
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... father of the hapless Iphigenia ; but con- ceiving a father's grief on such a trying occasion to be beyond the power of description , he represented him with his head wrapped in his mantle , leaving it to the imagination of the ...
... father of the hapless Iphigenia ; but con- ceiving a father's grief on such a trying occasion to be beyond the power of description , he represented him with his head wrapped in his mantle , leaving it to the imagination of the ...
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... FATHER OF MODERN PAINTERS . Cimabue of Florence , who flourished in the latter half of the thirteenth century , is generally honoured with the appellation of the Father of modern Painters . From his earliest youth he used to be ...
... FATHER OF MODERN PAINTERS . Cimabue of Florence , who flourished in the latter half of the thirteenth century , is generally honoured with the appellation of the Father of modern Painters . From his earliest youth he used to be ...
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... father's school , a building well suited to his purpose , as it stood on pillars . On showing it to his father , who was merely a man of letters , it struck him with astonishment , and he exclaimed , " Now this exemplifies what the ...
... father's school , a building well suited to his purpose , as it stood on pillars . On showing it to his father , who was merely a man of letters , it struck him with astonishment , and he exclaimed , " Now this exemplifies what the ...
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