The Monuments and Genii of St. Paul's Cathedral, and of Westminster Abbey: With Historical Sketches and Descriptions of Both Churches: Forming an Entirely New and Correct Biography of All that is Interesting in the Lives and Achievements of the Most Illustrious Characters of the United Kingdoms, المجلد 2J. Williams, 1839 |
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... equal , if not better compositions than any artist has produced since the Lectures of Sir Joshua Reynolds . Fuseli was always indefatigable , and yet always enjoyed excel- lent health , a blessing which probably resulted from a system ...
... equal , if not better compositions than any artist has produced since the Lectures of Sir Joshua Reynolds . Fuseli was always indefatigable , and yet always enjoyed excel- lent health , a blessing which probably resulted from a system ...
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... equal , but superior , to any actor of the time then present or past . Like the sun bursting from behind a cloud , he put forth at his very earliest dawn a somewhat more than meridian brightness . The polite establishments were desert ...
... equal , but superior , to any actor of the time then present or past . Like the sun bursting from behind a cloud , he put forth at his very earliest dawn a somewhat more than meridian brightness . The polite establishments were desert ...
الصفحة 506
... Equal popularity attended his efforts until the year 1776 , when , feeling satisfied with the fortune and fame he had acquired , he resolved to retire to the ease of private life . He dis- posed of a moiety of his interest in the patent ...
... Equal popularity attended his efforts until the year 1776 , when , feeling satisfied with the fortune and fame he had acquired , he resolved to retire to the ease of private life . He dis- posed of a moiety of his interest in the patent ...
الصفحة 507
... equal to the excitement of society . With a hope of alleviating its tortures , he was induced to avail himself of some quack medicines , and by injudiciously tampering with the malady , encreased its ravages . During the Christmas of ...
... equal to the excitement of society . With a hope of alleviating its tortures , he was induced to avail himself of some quack medicines , and by injudiciously tampering with the malady , encreased its ravages . During the Christmas of ...
الصفحة 508
... equal to him in their own respective fortes of playing , yet even their partisans must acknowledge there never existed any one performer that came near his excellence in so great a variety of parts . Tragedy , comedy , and farce , the ...
... equal to him in their own respective fortes of playing , yet even their partisans must acknowledge there never existed any one performer that came near his excellence in so great a variety of parts . Tragedy , comedy , and farce , the ...
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