The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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... criticisms of French , and the ' not less wild praise ' of ' most of the English writers ' - Mr . Gleig translated it from the French , added con- siderably to the text , and wrote a translator's preface to it , from which we have taken ...
... criticisms of French , and the ' not less wild praise ' of ' most of the English writers ' - Mr . Gleig translated it from the French , added con- siderably to the text , and wrote a translator's preface to it , from which we have taken ...
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... criticism is a mistake . Titian , Vandyke , and Reynolds did not gain their pre - eminence because they were great flatterers , but because they were great painters . Nor in ennobling countenances were they influenced by the sordid ...
... criticism is a mistake . Titian , Vandyke , and Reynolds did not gain their pre - eminence because they were great flatterers , but because they were great painters . Nor in ennobling countenances were they influenced by the sordid ...
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... criticism which has been directed against the Discourses themselves appears to us to be unimportant or un- sound . ' It was , I apprehend , ' says Allan Cunningham , the province of the President to point out those natural qualities by ...
... criticism which has been directed against the Discourses themselves appears to us to be unimportant or un- sound . ' It was , I apprehend , ' says Allan Cunningham , the province of the President to point out those natural qualities by ...
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... criticisms of Reynolds were the occasional outbreaks of irritation , but the caustic sarcasms of Northcote were the deliberate habit of his mind . charge charge . Romney was a person of morbid sensitiveness . 132 Life of Sir Joshua ...
... criticisms of Reynolds were the occasional outbreaks of irritation , but the caustic sarcasms of Northcote were the deliberate habit of his mind . charge charge . Romney was a person of morbid sensitiveness . 132 Life of Sir Joshua ...
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charge . Romney was a person of morbid sensitiveness . A hostile criticism would throw him into a fit of despondency and paralyse his powers . When Meyer , the miniature painter , urged him to allow his name to be enrolled among the ...
charge . Romney was a person of morbid sensitiveness . A hostile criticism would throw him into a fit of despondency and paralyse his powers . When Meyer , the miniature painter , urged him to allow his name to be enrolled among the ...
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