The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 133
inue to exist without the intervention of the gods. Thissystem Lucretius has rendered popular, by embellishingit with the charms of poetry; and the poet confidentlyesteems himself the benefactor of humanity, by releasingmortals, as he pretends, from the yoke of superstition,and the terrors of a… … ff. CJadp? JS-.del.1 madlle DUMESNIL. This celebrated actress was born at Paris. From ailearly age, she evinced a deposition for the stage. Afterperforming for some time, with success, at Strasburg,she returned to Paris, and made her debut at the The-atre Frangais, in 1737. She played successively…
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