 | Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - 1716 - 504 pages
...Imagination of the Reader. We have the Proverb, Manum de tabulA, from the Painters ; which fignifies, to know when to give over, and to lay by the Pencil. Both Homer and 'Virgil praftis'd this Precept wonderfully well, but Virgil the better of the two. Humer knew, that when Heffor... | |
 | Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - 1783 - 248 pages
...imagination of the reader. We have the proverb, " Mamim de tabula," from the Painters, which fignifies to know when to give over, and to lay by the pencil. Both Homer and Virgil practifed this precept wonderfully well ; but Virgil the better of the two. Homer knew that when Hector... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...very short, and left, as in a shadow, to the imagination of the reader. We have the proverb, manum de tabula, from the painters ; which signifies, to...practised this precept wonderfully well, but Virgil the be/ter of the two. Homer knew, that when Hector was slain, Troy was as good as already taken ; therefore... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 494 pages
...decent, than a gay " widow laughing in a mourning " habit." He afterwards, noticing the proverb Manum de tabula from the painters, which signifies to know when to give o'er, says, " This rule I had before my- eyes " in the conclusion of The Spanish " Fryar, when the... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 500 pages
...decent, than a gay " widow laughing in a mourning " habit." He afterwards, noticing the proverb Manum de tabula from the painters, which signifies to know when to give o'er, says, " This rule I had before my eyes " in the conclusion of The Spanish. " Fryar, when the... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 382 pages
...very short, and left, as in a shadow, to the imagination of the reader. We have the proverb, " Manum de tabula," from the painters, which signifies to...well: but Virgil the better of the two. Homer knew tKat when Hector was slam> Troy was as good as already taken : therefore he concludes his action there... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 284 pages
...very short, and left, as in a shadow, to the imagination of the reader. We have the proverb, " Manum de tabula," from the painters, which signifies to...therefore he concludes his action there : for what follow sin the funeral of Patroclus, and the redemption of Hector's body, is not, properly speaking,... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pages
...those very short, and left, as in a shadow, to the imagination of the reader. We have the proverb manvm de tabula from the painters ; which signifies to know when to give over, and lay by the pencil. Both Homer and Virgil practised this precept wonderfully well, but Virgil the better... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...Both Homer and Virgil practised this precept wonderfully well, hut Virgil the helter of the two. Hoam* knew, that when Hector was slain, Troy was as good...action there: for what follows in the funerals of Patroctas, and the redemption of Hector'e hody, is not, properly sneaking, a pan of the main action.... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1846 - 506 pages
...very short, and left, as in a shadow, to the imagination of the reader. We have the proverb, " Manum de tabula," from the Painters, which signifies to...better of the two. Homer knew that when Hector was .-linn, Troy was as good as already taken : therefore he concludes his action there: for what follows... | |
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... and those very short, and left, as in a shadow, to the imagination of the reader. We have the proverb, " Manum de tabula," from the Painters, which signifies to know when to give over, and to lay by the pencil. Both Homer and Virgil practised this... 
