The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... beauty and accomplishments , from her earliest years , were admired in the gay and splendid court of Francis . Many of the French writers , and the amusing Brantôme among the rest , have mangled her fair fame in the most outrageous ...
... beauty and accomplishments , from her earliest years , were admired in the gay and splendid court of Francis . Many of the French writers , and the amusing Brantôme among the rest , have mangled her fair fame in the most outrageous ...
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... he paid her , to observe the youth , the beauty , and the charms , of Anne Boleyn . Finding the accomplishments of her mind not inferior to her personal graces , he entertained But the design of raising her to the throne ,
... he paid her , to observe the youth , the beauty , and the charms , of Anne Boleyn . Finding the accomplishments of her mind not inferior to her personal graces , he entertained But the design of raising her to the throne ,
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... beauty excited ; and too frequently indulged herself in familiar conversation with persons who were formerly her equals , and who , perhaps , might sometimes forget the awful distance which afterwards separated them . The dignity of the ...
... beauty excited ; and too frequently indulged herself in familiar conversation with persons who were formerly her equals , and who , perhaps , might sometimes forget the awful distance which afterwards separated them . The dignity of the ...
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... beauty of composition . It may be urged that the genius of Poussin has had considerable influence over the artists of his country , who , for the most part , have evinced a disposition to follow the national taste , that is , smitten ...
... beauty of composition . It may be urged that the genius of Poussin has had considerable influence over the artists of his country , who , for the most part , have evinced a disposition to follow the national taste , that is , smitten ...
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... beauty of the subject , and the grandeur and the originality of the idea . It is also to be regretted , that they display not more correctness in the drawing , more variety in the air of the heads , har- FRANCE . ] LE BRUN . mony in the ...
... beauty of the subject , and the grandeur and the originality of the idea . It is also to be regretted , that they display not more correctness in the drawing , more variety in the air of the heads , har- FRANCE . ] LE BRUN . mony in the ...
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