Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries ...T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798 |
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... himself , frugal by nature , in- << dulged in no delicacy whatever , contented " merely with plainness and fimplicity , after the " old Tuscan manner , to others he was liberal " and magnificent ; calling around him those " perfons whom ...
... himself , frugal by nature , in- << dulged in no delicacy whatever , contented " merely with plainness and fimplicity , after the " old Tuscan manner , to others he was liberal " and magnificent ; calling around him those " perfons whom ...
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... " before the hair of 66 your fenators will become white too . " This great Statesman , on finding himself dying , fent for his fon Pietro , who was to fucceed him in his eftates and his dignity , and thus ad- in 24 LORENZO DE MEDICIS .
... " before the hair of 66 your fenators will become white too . " This great Statesman , on finding himself dying , fent for his fon Pietro , who was to fucceed him in his eftates and his dignity , and thus ad- in 24 LORENZO DE MEDICIS .
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... himself , nor make a proper use of what he " does after Nature ; because he cannot apply to " it that grace , that perfection of art , which is " not found in the common order of Nature , where we generally fee fome parts which are ...
... himself , nor make a proper use of what he " does after Nature ; because he cannot apply to " it that grace , that perfection of art , which is " not found in the common order of Nature , where we generally fee fome parts which are ...
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... himself , can never make a " good ufe of what others have done before him . " He used to say , " that oil painting was an art fit " for women only , or for the rich and idle ; " yet he acknowledged that Titian was the only painter , On ...
... himself , can never make a " good ufe of what others have done before him . " He used to say , " that oil painting was an art fit " for women only , or for the rich and idle ; " yet he acknowledged that Titian was the only painter , On ...
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... himself , as knowing how much farther he both could and ought to proceed . It is to the wifh of producing fome . thing fuperior to the Good , that we are indebted for the Excellent of every kind . Were cold and pedantic critics to ...
... himself , as knowing how much farther he both could and ought to proceed . It is to the wifh of producing fome . thing fuperior to the Good , that we are indebted for the Excellent of every kind . Were cold and pedantic critics to ...
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Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... William Seward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1798 |
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Side 50 - His line is uniformly grand. Character and beauty were admitted only as far as they could be made subservient to grandeur.
Side 237 - King thefe €C twenty years there ; for the whole country fell " fuddenly to him, not one town ftanding out. " When the King of Spain told the Count Oli...
Side 134 - He then turned to the people, and stretching out his hands, cried with a very loud voice, " Good Christian people ! for God's love be well aware of these men ; else they will beguile you, and lead you blindfold into hell with themselves.
Side 50 - ... far as they could be made subservient to grandeur ; the child, the female, meanness, deformity, were by him indiscriminately stamped with grandeur. A beggar rose from his hand the patriarch of poverty; the hump of his dwarf is impressed with dignity ; his women are moulds of generation ; his infants teem with the man ; his men are a race of giants. This is the
Side 287 - s were chiefly Romans and Florentines; men, we were told, whom fometimes misfortune and fometimes inclination, but more frequently extravagance and neceflity, drive from their refpcdive countries, and who, having relations or friends in St. Marino, eftablifh themfelves in that cheap city, where they fubfift on the wreck of their fortunes, and elude the purfuit of their creditors. Next morning Bonelli having invited feveral of his fellowcitizens to drink chocolate, we learned from them, that the morality...
Side 150 - ... have no place in his countenance, his eyes only do betray as much as can be picked out of him. He maketh me oft think of Solomon's saying, — ' Heaven is high ; the earth is deep ; a king's heart is unsearchable.
Side 279 - About two o'clock in the afternoon, we left the Borgo to climb up to the Citta, carrying our fwords in our right hands ; a precaution which the company we had juft left warranted in this modern republic, but which, as...
Side 13 - The first thing that I would therefore suggest to you is, that you ought to be grateful to God, and continually to recollect that it is not through your merits, your prudence, or your solicitude, that this event has taken place, but through his favour...
Side 421 - Much has been faid of the honour he received " by expiring in the arms of Francis the Firft. *' It was indeed an honour, by which deftiny in *' fome degree atoned to Francis for his difafter