The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 113
instruction: the author loses himself in idledissertations. His allegorical programs are too compli-cated and multiplied. Lairesse painted at Leige, Utrech,and Amsterdam; and finished his days in the last city,in 1711, at the age of seventy-one. He had two brothers,and a nephew, who were painters ;… … . MOLIERE The praise of a writer is generally to be drawn fromhis works. Of Moliere it may be said, his best eulogy isfrom a comparison of the authors who preceded, and ofthose who followed him: so much superior is he to all.How many men of undoubted wit and talents havelaboured in the same career…
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