The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volumen6Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810 |
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... taste for pleasure . : He in vain attempted to justify his conduct towards Dionysius , by pretending that the tone of censure and reprimand succeeds badly with princes ; 4 1 that haughty truths displease them ; that lessons conveyed in.
... taste for pleasure . : He in vain attempted to justify his conduct towards Dionysius , by pretending that the tone of censure and reprimand succeeds badly with princes ; 4 1 that haughty truths displease them ; that lessons conveyed in.
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... tastes from nature , but was not the slave of them , and that if he preferred a purple cloak to a woollen robe , he knew how to wear the one as well as the other . ” He excused his avidity for money , by the facility with which he spent ...
... tastes from nature , but was not the slave of them , and that if he preferred a purple cloak to a woollen robe , he knew how to wear the one as well as the other . ” He excused his avidity for money , by the facility with which he spent ...
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... taste improved by the study of letters . The care he bestowed to render his works perfect , the use of the most delicate and valuable colours with which all his pictures are abundantly covered , the plates of copper upon which they were ...
... taste improved by the study of letters . The care he bestowed to render his works perfect , the use of the most delicate and valuable colours with which all his pictures are abundantly covered , the plates of copper upon which they were ...
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... taste under that master . It is more certain that he owes his celebrity to the delicacy of his sensations , which rendered insupportable every thing harsh in his lines and colouring , or in the transition of shade to light , and to that ...
... taste under that master . It is more certain that he owes his celebrity to the delicacy of his sensations , which rendered insupportable every thing harsh in his lines and colouring , or in the transition of shade to light , and to that ...
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... taste , the art of ridiculing wittily , a remarkable attachment to good principles , and a love for the good authors of antiquity . If Fréron had carried on his journal without borrowing the aid of a crowd of mercenary writers , there ...
... taste , the art of ridiculing wittily , a remarkable attachment to good principles , and a love for the good authors of antiquity . If Fréron had carried on his journal without borrowing the aid of a crowd of mercenary writers , there ...
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