The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 179
fell, by the hand of treason, Gustavus III. aprince of high ambition, but of considerable talents andvalour. He possessed a pleasing address, an agreeableperson, an even temper, and a mind fraught with the chi-valry of former times. He protected justice, animatedcommerce, and patronized the arts.… … Hiinred iy jiii,jra\-it o\ t>. Cooke. n ■ i - h YernorrHi>o&&i<fhaipe,£>i4laypSoi. GLUCK. Sir Christopher Gluck was born in 1712, in theUpper Palatinate, on the frontiers of Bohemia. Heacquired, in his youth, the first principles of music, atPrague; where he distinguished…
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