Shakspere: His Times and Contemporariesauthor, 1861 - 80 pages |
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Page 11
... portraits so correctly or strikingly sketched ; no delineations of humanity , in all its various and varying phases , so truthfully given , as are to be found in his inimitable dramas . In his hands the stage indeed accomplishes " the ...
... portraits so correctly or strikingly sketched ; no delineations of humanity , in all its various and varying phases , so truthfully given , as are to be found in his inimitable dramas . In his hands the stage indeed accomplishes " the ...
Page 15
... portrait of Shakspere , we have the testimony of a competent and credible witness , his friend and brother dramatist ... portraits , Stratford busts , and engravings of the first folio - much as we undoubtedly ought to value them - are ...
... portrait of Shakspere , we have the testimony of a competent and credible witness , his friend and brother dramatist ... portraits , Stratford busts , and engravings of the first folio - much as we undoubtedly ought to value them - are ...
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... portraits - how beautiful and womanly they are ; save his intention be to show how fallen , how depraved , even the gentle heart of woman may become , —as in the unkind daughters of poor King Lear , and the proud and cruel Lady Macbeth ...
... portraits - how beautiful and womanly they are ; save his intention be to show how fallen , how depraved , even the gentle heart of woman may become , —as in the unkind daughters of poor King Lear , and the proud and cruel Lady Macbeth ...
Page 72
... portrait painter of eminence , who was born at Brescia in 1514 , had been the pupil of Titian , and afterwards carefully studied the works of Raphael , also dies this year ; as does also John da Udina , an Italian historical painter ...
... portrait painter of eminence , who was born at Brescia in 1514 , had been the pupil of Titian , and afterwards carefully studied the works of Raphael , also dies this year ; as does also John da Udina , an Italian historical painter ...
Page 73
... portrait painter , is sixty - seven years old , and has finished his famous copy of " The Adoration of the Lamb , " by the brothers Van Eyck , five years ago ; and his countryman , Aartgen , formerly a woolcomber , but afterwards so ...
... portrait painter , is sixty - seven years old , and has finished his famous copy of " The Adoration of the Lamb , " by the brothers Van Eyck , five years ago ; and his countryman , Aartgen , formerly a woolcomber , but afterwards so ...
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