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Pourtray

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Pour`tray´
v. t.1.See Portray.
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In a sequence of funeral songs on his friend's death, he names Wyatt as England's Petrarch, and one poem in particular seems to echo Petrarch's praise of Simone Martini: Holbein, the chiefest of that curious Art, Drew Wiat's lively image in each part With matchlesse skill; but no Apelles can Pourtray the witt and spiritt of that man.
The beauties of the land: Bale's books, Aske's abbeys, and the ... by Schwyzer, Philip / Renaissance Quarterly
I desire therein to be delineated in mine owne genuine, simple and ordinarie fashion, without contention, art or study; for it is myself I pourtray.
Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance & The ... by Hampton, Timothy / Shakespeare Studies
That charming Scotch lady [ldots] who apparently moves like a glistening planet in the very highest circles, has been at trouble to pourtray (sic) for us, in colours which glow and live, what she calls "the sin and scandal of the smart set".
THE EDWARDIAN LITERARY AFTERNOON PART TWO: NOW CAME STILL EVENING ON by Whittington-Egan, Richard / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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