The gallery of portraits: with memoirs ...: Gustavus AdolphusC. Knight, 1837 |
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13. oldal
... character of his heads , and the pure idea his works con- vey of the simplicity and elegance of the originals they are taken from and they may be considered as admirable drawings , not highly finished indeed , but sufficiently so to ...
... character of his heads , and the pure idea his works con- vey of the simplicity and elegance of the originals they are taken from and they may be considered as admirable drawings , not highly finished indeed , but sufficiently so to ...
14. oldal
... characters of the heads admirably well expressed . In short , he would scarcely believe it possible that the same plate should furnish impressions , so beautiful in one state , and so truly execrable in the other . But the wonder ceases ...
... characters of the heads admirably well expressed . In short , he would scarcely believe it possible that the same plate should furnish impressions , so beautiful in one state , and so truly execrable in the other . But the wonder ceases ...
19. oldal
... character the con- stant instrument of the Privy Council for applying this odious pro- cess , is beyond all question : but it must be remembered that what he wrote on this subject was written long after the period of which we are now ...
... character the con- stant instrument of the Privy Council for applying this odious pro- cess , is beyond all question : but it must be remembered that what he wrote on this subject was written long after the period of which we are now ...
26. oldal
... character , he prevailed over the hasty caprice of a powerful intellect ; and on Christmas - day , in 1754 , Gibbon publicly renounced his adopted creed , and received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne . There is no reason to ...
... character , he prevailed over the hasty caprice of a powerful intellect ; and on Christmas - day , in 1754 , Gibbon publicly renounced his adopted creed , and received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne . There is no reason to ...
29. oldal
... character of the rest of life were entirely passed abroad , in the study and perpetual use of foreign languages , and the imitation of foreign literature . It was not then wonderful that he should continue for some time longer to follow ...
... character of the rest of life were entirely passed abroad , in the study and perpetual use of foreign languages , and the imitation of foreign literature . It was not then wonderful that he should continue for some time longer to follow ...
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