Daughter of the patrician, Amilcare Anguisciola, whose only fame rests on the fact that he was the father of six daughters, all of whom were distinguished by unusual talents in music and painting.
It would be interesting to know the relation that this gentle lady bore to those Pazzi who had earned a fame so unlike hers fourscore years before she saw the light.
Her exquisite taste in the arrangement of her subjects, the grace of her draperies, and, above all, the refinement and spirituality of her pictures, were the characteristics on which her fame was based.
Besides her fame as an artist and a scholar, her name was renowned for purity of heart and fervent religious feeling.
It is a charming thought that from the inspiration of a pure affection so beautiful an art originated, and doubtless Kora's influence contributed much to the artistic fame which her husband later achieved in Corinth.
Lanzi and Rudolfi praised her as an artist, and her fame now rests on the testimony of those who saw her works rather than on the pictures themselves, some of which are said to be in private collections in Italy.
Rosalba's fame in Venice was such that she was invited to the courts of France and Austria, where she painted many portraits.
The fame of her miniatures extended even to Southern Italy, where her name was honorably known.
The fame of this novel supper was spread over Paris, and marvellous tales were told of its magnificence and its cost.
But it would be ungracious to lessen a fame almost three centuries old.
From 1855 her fame was established; she was greatly appreciated, and her works competed for in England and the United States, as well as in European countries.
We glean the story of her life from the works of various authors, while her fame rests securely on her superiority in the art to which she was devoted.
The saddle itself is a very thick pad of straw, covered with carpet, and flat at the top, instead of being rounded as is the case with our saddles.
The Camel is still one of the most valued animals that inhabit Palestine, and in former times it played a part in Jewish history scarcely inferior to that of the ox or sheep.
He was a French soldier of the old stamp, a Royalist by birth and disposition; had gained considerable fame during the American war, and at the time of the Revolution was governor of Metz and Alsace.
France is ambitious, fond of military glory, and willingly identifies herself with the fame acquired by her soldiers.
The brave queen, queen Elizabeth also, the sister to king Edward, hath left of things of this nature, to her lasting fame behind her.
Bunyan's popularity and fame for wisdom and knowledge had spread all round the country, and it naturally brought him visitors, with their doubts, and fears, and cases of conscience.
Physicians get neither name nor fame by pricking of wheals,10 or picking out thistles, or by laying of plasters to the scratch of a pin; every old woman can do this.
The fame of Fowler's gross perversion of the design of Christ's gospel reached Bunyan in prison, and its popularity grieved his spirit.
Lo, yonder also stands a monument, on which is engraven this battle, and Christian's victory, to his fame throughout all ages.
The hen, so soon as she an egg doth lay, (Spreads the fame of her doing what she may.
I wish they had been less zealous in their pursuit of fame and had managed their money matters better!
Then, whereas in the middle of the past century all towns were forbid by imperial law to hold tournaments, he went to Court, and had been dubbed knight by the Emperor Charles, and won fame and honor by many a shrewd lance-thrust.
No battle-field makes Paoli's name illustrious; but his memory is here honoured by the foundation-school of Morosaglia, and this fame seems to me more human and more beautiful than the fame of Marengo or the Pyramids.
During this era of the iron rule of the Genoese Bank, many able men emigrated, and sought for themselves name and fame in foreign countries.
Hot-headed youths are fired with the thought of winning fame by daring deeds of arms, and of living in the ballads of the people.
At the nod of Napoleon, millions of human beings were murdered for the sake of fame and power.
He found his classical scholarship, his early fame at Oxford, his love of elegant literature, rather a disadvantage than a recommendation for business.
By his second wife, also of Scottish descent, he had several sons who achieved fame and success.
His fame had spread not only throughout the town, but also far away into the country beyond; for of all the merchants who carried on business in this great commercial centre he was the wealthiest and the most enterprising.
And then a miracle was wrought, and once more the fairies interfered, this time to save the life of the only son of the man whose fame for tenderness and compassion had reached the far-off Western Heaven.
Immediately beyond were earls and dukes, viceroys of provinces and great captains and commanders, whose fame for mighty deeds of valour in the border warfare had spread through every city and town and hamlet in the Empire.
In what way, then, could he secure that the fame and dignities, which had come to some of the clans in the region in which he lived, should descend upon his home and upon his grandsons?
That Meng's fame had travelled far was shown by an occurrence which was destined to have a considerable influence on the fortunes of his only son, Chin, in whom his whole soul was bound up.
In one bound he had leaped from comparative poverty tofame and riches.
The rule of St. Benedict, on which his fame rests, forms an epoch in the history of monasticism.
Other women I shall love, Fame and fortune I may win, But when fame and love forsake me And the light is night above, You will let me in, You will take me.
Even the glow of his newly acquired fame was not discernible behind his well-remembered head.
To write a book of the existence of which even one's own family did not know, to publish it under a nom de plume, and to awake one day to fetes and fame would be indeed to live!
The tale on which her chief fame rests was the product of the heart-searchings that she underwent, at the very time when the thoughts and studies of good men were tending to discover neglected truths in the Church of England.
As things were, her life and principles were at cross-corners; and when her literary success had roused up her social ambition, and fame had lifted her far above the place where her birth had set her, she realised the mistake she had made.
From time to time there appeared from her pen volumes of short stories, studies, and essays; but it is not by these that her name and fame will be kept green.
All this time, while her fame is slowly growing, life passes in the same way as in the old cottage at Chawton.
They plot and scheme to ruin the fair fame and domestic happiness of the charming heroines, but they are justly punished, and their plots are defeated.
Is the Fe-fa-fum of literature that snuffs afar the fame of his brother authors, and thirsts for its destruction, to be allowed to gallop unmolested over the fields of criticism?
While it has come to be no reproach upon the fameof Dr.
He had been ataman in the Saitch; he had led regiments in Wallachia; in Germany he had enlisted volunteers in the Thirty Years' War, and had won a certain fame as a leader of cavalry.
Pitch does not stick to a garment like evilfame to a man," muttered he.
Pan Sapyeha alone suffered internally, because a new "confusion" had met him from which his fame might be seriously affected.
He counted also on the spell of his name, on the fame of an invincible leader, and finally on treaties.
It might be reckoned almost with certainty that he would grow weary of waiting in trenches, and would seek fame and victory in the open field.
Whoever inherits from his ancestors such fame should not avoid an opportunity to increase that fame and make it immortal.
He was meditating surely over his fame of Poliorcetes.
We know of each other, for the trumpet of fame is to be heard from one end of the world to the other.
My fameis not equal to yours; but were I Karl Gustav, I would not expose that glory acquired by so many victories to the fickle fortune of war.
It was science, not the fame of science, that he loved, and he helped science by the temper in which he approached it.
If this single research were his only title to fame Darwin's name must rank high as an experimenter of rare ingenuity and success.
The directors had decided not to give the distinguished post to an obscure provincial teacher, when all of a sudden his great broadside of fame for Mary had come roaring in among them.
Unusual and peculiar it seemed that the only writing he had sold for money, since "Jennie," was this series of articles designed to bring fame to Mary Wing.
Of course, as far as that went, a man would like a little fame for himself, now and then.
They wrote anthems and chants, but they won fame in their generation by catches, canons, glees, madrigals, and fugitive pieces of all sorts.
THE SHORT STOP The young hero, tiring of his factory grind, starts out to win fame and fortune as a professional ball player.
It would be impossible to deny that this unexpected proof of his fame was agreeable to Lefferts.
The fame of his exploit at Thingvellir had brought him a troop of admirers, and what he wanted for his pleasure he never lacked.
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