The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... mark of his gratitude . Clement IX . proved no less a zealous protector of Bernini than his predecessors , and employed him to decorate the bridge of St. Angelo . His last work was a demi - colossal figure of Christ , which he ...
... mark of his gratitude . Clement IX . proved no less a zealous protector of Bernini than his predecessors , and employed him to decorate the bridge of St. Angelo . His last work was a demi - colossal figure of Christ , which he ...
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... marks of royal favour , was made choice of by that monarch to write his history , in conjunction with Racine . The doors of the French Aca- demy were likewise opened to him , and those of other literary societies . Boileau , like the ...
... marks of royal favour , was made choice of by that monarch to write his history , in conjunction with Racine . The doors of the French Aca- demy were likewise opened to him , and those of other literary societies . Boileau , like the ...
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... marks of his bene- ficence . Beside his poetical productions , of whose indi- vidual merit it is unnecessary to speak , he translated the Treatise on the Sublime , by Longinus : to which , on being engaged in the dispute with Perrault ...
... marks of his bene- ficence . Beside his poetical productions , of whose indi- vidual merit it is unnecessary to speak , he translated the Treatise on the Sublime , by Longinus : to which , on being engaged in the dispute with Perrault ...
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... mark of contempt and disgust , he annihilated that famous assembly which had filled all Europe with the renown of its actions , and with astonish- ment at its crimes ; and whose commencement was not more ardently desired by the people ...
... mark of contempt and disgust , he annihilated that famous assembly which had filled all Europe with the renown of its actions , and with astonish- ment at its crimes ; and whose commencement was not more ardently desired by the people ...
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... marks . On the accession of Charles , he addressed a petition to that prince , requesting , that as his royal father had granted him a pension of one hundred marks , he would make them pounds ; and when the King sent him that sum , he ...
... marks . On the accession of Charles , he addressed a petition to that prince , requesting , that as his royal father had granted him a pension of one hundred marks , he would make them pounds ; and when the King sent him that sum , he ...
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