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The art of literary portraiture in the seventeenth century developed with the effort to improve the writing of history.
2
The eighteenth-century man presents a number of excellent features for literary portraiture, because he is a compound of formality and explosiveness.
3
Hadn't she always known that he had this gift, this quick, vivacious power of narrative, this genius-forit was something like it-forliterary portraiture?