The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, 7. köideVernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 |
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... retire to Rome . He there lived for fifteen years , estranged from all public affairs , when he was made choice of by Nero to govern in Spain . Having reprobated the cruel means that were exercised by the rulers in the distant provinces ...
... retire to Rome . He there lived for fifteen years , estranged from all public affairs , when he was made choice of by Nero to govern in Spain . Having reprobated the cruel means that were exercised by the rulers in the distant provinces ...
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... retiring from the stage . The last character he performed was Don Felix in the Wonder , in which he even sur- passed ... retired to Hampton , where he de voted his hours to literature , blest with the society of ENGLAND . ] GARRICK ...
... retiring from the stage . The last character he performed was Don Felix in the Wonder , in which he even sur- passed ... retired to Hampton , where he de voted his hours to literature , blest with the society of ENGLAND . ] GARRICK ...
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... of the spectators , the very gait , features , and character of the monarch , and the illustrious person- ages he had seen . Some time after his retirement from the stage , Garrick was introduced at St. James's , and received in a 4.
... of the spectators , the very gait , features , and character of the monarch , and the illustrious person- ages he had seen . Some time after his retirement from the stage , Garrick was introduced at St. James's , and received in a 4.
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... retirement of five years he returned to England , where he began to col- lect a noble library , and those studies which had em- bellished his retreat at Lausanne proved to him a source of refined pleasure in the bustle of London . In ...
... retirement of five years he returned to England , where he began to col- lect a noble library , and those studies which had em- bellished his retreat at Lausanne proved to him a source of refined pleasure in the bustle of London . In ...
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... retired to Switzerland , where he employed himself in completing his history , and returned to Eng- land , on the commotion occasioned to neighbouring states , by the French Revolution , where he died of a dropsy , January 16 , 1794 ...
... retired to Switzerland , where he employed himself in completing his history , and returned to Eng- land , on the commotion occasioned to neighbouring states , by the French Revolution , where he died of a dropsy , January 16 , 1794 ...
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