Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . o, who is a painter, aswell as in many graphic descriptions of scenery. Some of the lights andshades of the landscape are given as they could have been only by one familiarwith the practice of art. The style of Monaldi is remarkably concise andunaffected, frequently rising into eloquence, and never becoming tame. Itsparticular merits
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . o, who is a painter, aswell as in many graphic descriptions of scenery. Some of the lights andshades of the landscape are given as they could have been only by one familiarwith the practice of art. The style of Monaldi is remarkably concise andunaffected, frequently rising into eloquence, and never becoming tame. Itsparticular merits as a story consist in the masterly analysis of human passion,the lovely unfolding of female character, and the dramatic management of is great metaphysical truth in the development of love and jealousy,which is its chief purpose. Indeed, if Allston had never painted prophets, thesewritten pictures would have established his fame as an author. The work showshow capable he was of achieving a wide and permanent literary reputation, andforms a most interesting and valuable addition to our romantic fiction. Hisother prose writings are chiefly on subjects connected with the arts, and arefinished with the same care as his paintings. 540 JOSEPH STORA. JOSEPH STORY. THIS distinguished jurist was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Septembei18, 1779. His father was Elisha Story, a physician, who was a surgeon inthe army of the Revolution. At the age of sixteen, the subject of this sketchentered Harvard college, in the class with William Ellery Channing.* After * \V AM ELLEUY CHANNING, the eminent scholar and distinguished Unitarian divine, was bornat Newport, in Rhode Island, April 7, 1780 His preat-grand father, John Channing, the first of thename who came to America, was a native of Dorsetshire, in England ; his grandfather, John Channing,was a merchant in Newport; and his father, William Channing, after graduating at Princeton college,in 17(i/, became a lawyer, and w
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