The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 259
for the seventh time, theconsular authority, when the intemperance into whichhe plunged, to overpower his remorse, led him to thetomb in the 86th year B. C. The picture of Marius is one of those capital produc-tions alone sufficient to place a painter upon a level withthe greatest masters. The… … THE DREAM OF ORESTES. FLEURY. Orestes is one of the most celebrated personages ofthe heroic times. The events of his life have given birthto various traditions that often contradict each other.In some countries of Greece there existed one thatrepre*sented this prince as a giant of the height of…
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