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... nature , and the elegant courtier whose opulent tastes are often discovered in the graceful pomp of his descriptions . The vigorous yet finished paintings , with which his works abound , are still , notwithstanding the roughness of ...
... nature , and the elegant courtier whose opulent tastes are often discovered in the graceful pomp of his descriptions . The vigorous yet finished paintings , with which his works abound , are still , notwithstanding the roughness of ...
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... natural philosophy , and in sketches of human nature of no com mon beauty . The poet , in a vision , sees a temple of glass , on the walls of which are displayed in portraitures the history of Æneas , abridged from Virgil . After ...
... natural philosophy , and in sketches of human nature of no com mon beauty . The poet , in a vision , sees a temple of glass , on the walls of which are displayed in portraitures the history of Æneas , abridged from Virgil . After ...
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... nature ? " Or are ye god Cupidis own princéss , And comen are to loose me out of band ? Or are ye very Nature the goddess , That have depainted with your heavenly hand This garden full of flouris as they stand ? What shall I think ...
... nature ? " Or are ye god Cupidis own princéss , And comen are to loose me out of band ? Or are ye very Nature the goddess , That have depainted with your heavenly hand This garden full of flouris as they stand ? What shall I think ...
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... nature , is more practiced by men than any sort of beasts : and they , against the custom of almost all other nations , think that there is nothing more inglorious than that glory which is gained by war . They would be both troubled and ...
... nature , is more practiced by men than any sort of beasts : and they , against the custom of almost all other nations , think that there is nothing more inglorious than that glory which is gained by war . They would be both troubled and ...
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... nature . In their love of virtue , and their instinctive hatred and contempt of vice ; in their freedom from personal jealousy ; in their thirst after knowledge and intellectual improvement ; in nice obser- vation of nature ...
... nature . In their love of virtue , and their instinctive hatred and contempt of vice ; in their freedom from personal jealousy ; in their thirst after knowledge and intellectual improvement ; in nice obser- vation of nature ...
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