The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time..J. Nichols and Son [and 29 others], 1814 |
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... masters . He endeavoured to give a finer air to his heads , and more of nature to his colouring , with proper actions to his figures . He attempted likewise to draw after the life , and to express the different passions of the mind ...
... masters . He endeavoured to give a finer air to his heads , and more of nature to his colouring , with proper actions to his figures . He attempted likewise to draw after the life , and to express the different passions of the mind ...
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... master , he was obliged to quit the court . He left the city at the same time , and removed with his family to Mondovi in Piedmont ; where he taught the belles lettres publicly for three years . He then went to Turin ; but the air there ...
... master , he was obliged to quit the court . He left the city at the same time , and removed with his family to Mondovi in Piedmont ; where he taught the belles lettres publicly for three years . He then went to Turin ; but the air there ...
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... master in Aldersgate- street , and was , for a short time , the pupil of Mr. Dayes . He early made nature his model ; but the first master that struck his attention forcibly was Canaletti , and , in the latter part of his life , he ...
... master in Aldersgate- street , and was , for a short time , the pupil of Mr. Dayes . He early made nature his model ; but the first master that struck his attention forcibly was Canaletti , and , in the latter part of his life , he ...
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... masters of the passions . The characters are varied with much knowledge of the human heart . Each has his distinctive properties , and no one is raised beyond the proportion of virtue or talent which may be supposed to correspond with ...
... masters of the passions . The characters are varied with much knowledge of the human heart . Each has his distinctive properties , and no one is raised beyond the proportion of virtue or talent which may be supposed to correspond with ...
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... master , the congeniality of his style with that of their old national favourites , Lulli and Rameau , was no small merit with the friends of that music . The almost universal cry at Paris was now , that he had recovered the dramatic ...
... master , the congeniality of his style with that of their old national favourites , Lulli and Rameau , was no small merit with the friends of that music . The almost universal cry at Paris was now , that he had recovered the dramatic ...
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Σελίδα 318 - I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered that I think myself in hell till time come that I must go to Mr.
Σελίδα 149 - A New and Full Method of settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament.
Σελίδα 81 - No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
Σελίδα 317 - and tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that he sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster.
Σελίδα 318 - ... as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the...
Σελίδα 60 - A Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island ; together with a brief history of their lives and memorable actions, as near as can be gathered from antiquity.
Σελίδα 404 - In those very writings which Grotius is gravely blamed for having quoted. The usages and laws of nations, the events of history, the opinions of philosophers, the sentiments of orators and poets, as well as the observation of common life, are, in truth, the materials out of which the science of morality is formed ; and those who neglect them are justly chargeable with a vain attempt to philosophize without regard to fact and experience, the sole foundation of all true philosophy.
Σελίδα 169 - Langton's having told me, that this poem, when read in manuscript at sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : Now, Muse, let's sing of rats.
Σελίδα 309 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.