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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors - Page 231
by Allan Cunningham - 1831
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Anecdotes of Some Distingushed Persons: Chiefly of the Present and ..., Volume 1

William Seward - 1796 - 560 pages
...female, meannefs, " deformity, were by him indifcriminately " ftamped with grandeur. A beggar rofe from *' his hand the patriarch of poverty -, the hump of " his dwarf is impreffed with dignity ; his " women are moulds of generation ; his infants " teem with the man ; his...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature

1796 - 616 pages
...the female, meannefs, deformity, were by him îndifcrimiaately ftampcd with grandeur. A beggar rofc from his hand the patriarch of poverty ; the hump of his dwarf is ¡mpreflcd with dignity ; hi* women are moulds of generation ; his infants teem with the mnn ; Iris...
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Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ...

William Seward - 1798 - 462 pages
...meannefs, " deformity, were by him indifcriminately " {lamped with grandeur. A beggar rofe from l< his hand the patriarch of poverty ; the hump " of his dwarf is imprefled with dignity ; his " women are moulds of generation ; his infants " teem with the man ; his...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 106

1857 - 628 pages
...utmost simplicity and breadth. His line is uniformly grand : character and beauty were admitted only as far as they could be made subservient to grandeur....meanness, deformity, were by him indiscriminately stamped by grandeur. A beggar rose from his hand the patriarch of poverty ; the hump of his dwarf is impressed...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 7, Part 2

1811 - 600 pages
...simplicity and breadth. His line is uniformly grand : character and ' beauty were admitted only as far as they could be made subservient to ' grandeur....child, the female, meanness, deformity, were by him ' Sublimity of conception, grandeur of form, and breadth of manner, are ' the elements of Michael Angelo's...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 504 pages
...utmost simplicity and breadth. His line is uniformly grand. Character and beauty were admitted only as far as they could be made subservient to grandeur....hump of his dwarf is impressed with dignity ; his womea are moulds of generation ; his infants teem with the man ; his men are a race of giants. This...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 7

Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 508 pages
...utmost simplicity and breadth. Hig line is uniformly grand. Character and beauty were admitted only as far as they could be made subservient to grandeur....beggar rose from his hand the patriarch of poverty ; th« hump of his dwarf is impressed with dignity ; his women are moulds of generation ; his infants...
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A guide to Burghley house, Northamptonshire [by T. Blore].

Thomas Blore - 1815 - 320 pages
...utmost simplicity and breadth. His line is uniformly grand. Character and beauty were admitted only as far as they could be made subservient to grandeur....meanness, deformity, were by him indiscriminately stamped trith grandeur. A beggar rose from his hand the patriarch of poverty ; the hump of his dwarf is impressed...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 16

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...utmost simplicity and breadth. His line is uniformly grand : character and beauty were admitted only as far as they could be made subservient to grandeur....; his women are moulds of generation; his infants totm with the man ; his men are a race of giants. This is the ' terribil via' hinted at by Agostino...
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A General Dictionary of Painters: Containing Memoirs of the Lives ..., Volume 1

Matthew Pilkington - 1829 - 586 pages
...utmost simplicity and breadth. His line is uniformly grand. Character and beauty were admitted only as far as they could be made subservient to grandeur-...child, the female, meanness, deformity, were by him stamped with grandeur. A beggar rose from his hand the patriarch of poverty ; the hump of his dwarf...
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