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" There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many 30 writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of... "
Macaulay's Essays on Clive and Hastings - Page 180
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1910 - 268 pages
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition—...
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Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 474 pages
...had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65

1849 - 864 pages
...had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to as the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, iii. 205, 206. from which...
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Essays, political, historical and miscellaneous, Volume 3

sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...labours in that dark and profound mite from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition—a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often...precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the volnptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There, too,...
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Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and ..., Volume 3

James Dennistoun - 1851 - 520 pages
...has shown. " ADDISON. " That easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful countenances of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons." MACAULAY. IT would occupy a full chapter were we to trace the history of what Julius II. meant to have...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 5-6

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pages
...statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted...ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There apj>eared the voluptuous oharms of her to whom the heir oc the throne had in secret plighted his faith....
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved -to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he. had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a...
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Introduction to the art of reading

J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 pages
...spectacle had allured Reynolds from the easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so...noble matrons. It had induced Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition : a...
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A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons. It had induced Parrf to suspend his labors in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure...
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The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General ..., Volume 14

George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 866 pages
...portraits, which, as Macaulay has observed, " have preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons," the number is very considerable, and the technical merits, especially with respect to color and cHiaroscuro,...
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