The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 45
ting, always composed thesecond line before the first, conceiving by this methodthat his verses had more sense and dignity. This, in hisopinion, was one of the great secrets of French poetry,which had been communicated to him by Racine, ofwhom he acquired the art of making difficult rhymes.But this… … ST. BRUNO. St. Bruno was born at Cologne, in the year 1051, ofa noble and virtuous family. He came to Paris underthe reign of Phillip I. where he began his studies, andwent through a course of philosophy and theology, withthe most brilliant success. He had even obtained a pro-fessors chair, when…
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