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... painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfervations : his de- scriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to those , of poets who have only copied from each other , and have never looked ...
... painted from nature itself , and from his own actual obfervations : his de- scriptions have therefore a distinctness and truth , which are utterly wanting to those , of poets who have only copied from each other , and have never looked ...
Page 86
... painted a picture in the church of Saint Andrew , Annibal Carrache , their mafter , was preffed to de- clare , which of his two pupils had excelled . The picture of Guido reprefented Saint An- drew on his knees before the cross ; that ...
... painted a picture in the church of Saint Andrew , Annibal Carrache , their mafter , was preffed to de- clare , which of his two pupils had excelled . The picture of Guido reprefented Saint An- drew on his knees before the cross ; that ...
Page 166
... painted only the French and the present age , even when he defigned to paint another age , and other nations : We fee in Corneille , all those ages and all thofe nations , that he intended to paint . IX . The number of the pieces of ...
... painted only the French and the present age , even when he defigned to paint another age , and other nations : We fee in Corneille , all those ages and all thofe nations , that he intended to paint . IX . The number of the pieces of ...
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