The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, 第 4 巻J. Cumberland, 1820 |
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... performance with her presence ; to which she consented , and gave tickets to all her servants . Soon after , an itinerant methodist came to preach a charity sermon in the same building ( the barn ) , and application was again made to ...
... performance with her presence ; to which she consented , and gave tickets to all her servants . Soon after , an itinerant methodist came to preach a charity sermon in the same building ( the barn ) , and application was again made to ...
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... performance . A Brazen Heifer which he made , is celebrated by no less than thirty- six epigrams in the Greek Anthologia . The follow- ing is among the best : On the Heifer of Brass of Myron . " Either this heifer has a brazen skin , Or ...
... performance . A Brazen Heifer which he made , is celebrated by no less than thirty- six epigrams in the Greek Anthologia . The follow- ing is among the best : On the Heifer of Brass of Myron . " Either this heifer has a brazen skin , Or ...
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... performances . MOSAIC PAINTING . Mosaic , as Wotton describes it in his work on architecture , is a kind of painting in ... performance exhibited to the eye crumbs of bread , and such other things as fall from a table , which were so ...
... performances . MOSAIC PAINTING . Mosaic , as Wotton describes it in his work on architecture , is a kind of painting in ... performance exhibited to the eye crumbs of bread , and such other things as fall from a table , which were so ...
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... performances ; but upon the completion of his works , he returned to Badajoz with the same spirit of extra- vagance ; for when Philip passed through that place in 1581 , on his way to take possession of the kingdom of Portugal , Morales ...
... performances ; but upon the completion of his works , he returned to Badajoz with the same spirit of extra- vagance ; for when Philip passed through that place in 1581 , on his way to take possession of the kingdom of Portugal , Morales ...
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... performances to the eye of the king . He observed it was his majesty's practice in Velasquez's chamber , to order the pictures that stood with their faces to the wall , to be turned , that he might see them ; this suggested to him the ...
... performances to the eye of the king . He observed it was his majesty's practice in Velasquez's chamber , to order the pictures that stood with their faces to the wall , to be turned , that he might see them ; this suggested to him the ...
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