Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . VIEW OF THE WESTERKERK. (Drawing by Boudier, after a photograph.) CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS 85 nothing of their freedom of speech. But he died prematurely beforehe had proved his capacity. Pieter Cornelisz Hooft, an aristocrat by birth and education, was. EPHRAIM BONUS. 1647 (B. 278). the choragus of classicism in the opposite camp. The diction ofhis insipid pastorals, pasticci on Tassos Aminta and Guarinis PastorFido, remained unchanged—ponderous, invertebrate, full of conceitsand affectations. The tragedies by which they were succeeded have 86 REMBR
Rembrandt, his life, his work and his time . VIEW OF THE WESTERKERK. (Drawing by Boudier, after a photograph.) CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS 85 nothing of their freedom of speech. But he died prematurely beforehe had proved his capacity. Pieter Cornelisz Hooft, an aristocrat by birth and education, was. EPHRAIM BONUS. 1647 (B. 278). the choragus of classicism in the opposite camp. The diction ofhis insipid pastorals, pasticci on Tassos Aminta and Guarinis PastorFido, remained unchanged—ponderous, invertebrate, full of conceitsand affectations. The tragedies by which they were succeeded have 86 REMBRANDT more of grace and nature, but they suffer from the same radicalfeebleness of conception. Vulgarity jostles pathos at every turn ; andthe action is impeded by endless digressions and broad and tolerant views raised him above party strife,religious or political, and he had friends of every denomination. Apassion for the antique distinguished most of those who gatheredround him at his country house at Muiden, near Amsterdam, where hehad settled in 1609, on his appointment as warden of the exchange of letters and verses in Latin obtained in thiscircle, which, under the name of the Muider Kring, was of somenote in the literary history of the day. The dau
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