Anecdotes of Some Distingushed Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries, Volum 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1796 |
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... Louis the Fourteenth's only fon , the Dauphin , who had been long ill of an intermitting fever , the physicians who were about the Prince did not chufe to permit him to prefcribé to their Royal Patient till they had asked him fome ...
... Louis the Fourteenth's only fon , the Dauphin , who had been long ill of an intermitting fever , the physicians who were about the Prince did not chufe to permit him to prefcribé to their Royal Patient till they had asked him fome ...
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... ( Louis XIV . ) fatue * . The King's houses I Bernini's defign for the Louvre was not adopted ; it is engraved in one of Perelle's books of Views . Bernini made a buft , but no ftatue of Louis , I believe . " could << " could not mifs ...
... ( Louis XIV . ) fatue * . The King's houses I Bernini's defign for the Louvre was not adopted ; it is engraved in one of Perelle's books of Views . Bernini made a buft , but no ftatue of Louis , I believe . " could << " could not mifs ...
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... Louis XIV . in fome intercepted letters . Lord Godolphin he reprefents as a continual card◅ player , who , it seems , always took care to play at cards when he was in company with the Bishop , left he should put to him impertinent and ...
... Louis XIV . in fome intercepted letters . Lord Godolphin he reprefents as a continual card◅ player , who , it seems , always took care to play at cards when he was in company with the Bishop , left he should put to him impertinent and ...
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... Louis the Fourteenth with one of his nieces , fhe nobly replied , " If the King was capable of degrading himself so far , " I would put myself with my second son at the " head of the whole French Nation against the " King and against ...
... Louis the Fourteenth with one of his nieces , fhe nobly replied , " If the King was capable of degrading himself so far , " I would put myself with my second son at the " head of the whole French Nation against the " King and against ...
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... Louis the Fourteenth . ” He thus defcribes the French Wits of his time : " They haunt great men's tables , frequent their " own academies , and trick and trim their native CG tongue without end . They run about this " way and that way ...
... Louis the Fourteenth . ” He thus defcribes the French Wits of his time : " They haunt great men's tables , frequent their " own academies , and trick and trim their native CG tongue without end . They run about this " way and that way ...
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Side 326 - What the back-ground is in painting, in architecture is the real ground on which the building is erected ; and no architect took greater care than he that his work should not appear crude and hard : that is, it did not abruptly start out of the ground without expectation or preparation.
Side 365 - ... them in a superior manner did not always preserve, when they delineated individual nature. His portraits remind the spectator of the invention of history, and the amenity of landscape.
Side 20 - Turks' man of war tacked about, and we continued our course. But when your father saw it convenient to retreat, looking upon me, he blessed himself, and snatched me up in his arms, saying, ' Good God, that love can make this change !' and though he seemingly chid me, he would laugh at it as often as he remembered that voyage.
Side 62 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Side 47 - ... make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their...
Side 49 - It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar; it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them to the purpose before him; together with a lively briskness of humour, not apt to damp those sportful flashes of imagination.
Side 16 - ... if I would ask my husband privately, he would tell me what he found in the packet, and I might tell her. I, that was young and innocent, and to that day had never in my mouth
Side 19 - ... which would make the Turks think we were a man-of-war, but if they saw women they would take us for merchants and board us. He went upon...
Side 324 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Side 48 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose; often it consisteth in one knows not what and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.