The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 163
artists of the Venetianschool in the quickness of his genius and the fertility ofhis invention. His knowledge of the best principles ofhis art was very extensive, but he had too much fire to beat all times discreetly directed by that knowledge. Heomitted no labour, no study, no application that… … Enaravcd h J-torcie tbokj. ■ndonFuiUj-Tud fy Ve>rwr.noi>di-Sfuxrpe,roidtJj,Ja>uu80^. THEOCRITITS. Theocritus was born at Syracuse, abor.t 300 3earsbefore Jesus Christ. His father was nacied Praxagoras,and his mother Phi Una. Fie himself bore the surnameof Simichidas, from the Greek word…
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