 | Joseph Warton - 1772 - 374 pages
...known to have been remarkably fond. " There is no excellent beauty, that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles...were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by geometrical proportions ; the other by taking the beft parts out of divers faces, to make... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...confining proportion to rules, or of producing beauty by selection. " A man cannot " tell, (says he,) whether Apelles or Albert " Durer were the more trifler: whereof the " one would make a personage by geome" trical proportions; the other, by taking " the best parts out of divers faces, to make " one... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...Added to his treatise entitled, Della Ragion Poetica. In Napoli. 1716. pag. 239,250. t Ver. 141. ness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think, a painter... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...Poetics. lu Napoli. 1716. pag. 239,250. t Ver. 141. ness in the proportion, A man cannot tell ther Apelles or Albert Durer .were the more trifler : whereof...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think, a painter... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...than juft to regulate their operations. WARBURTOJU. NOTES. lent beauty that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles,...were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by ~geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the beft parts out of divers facci to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...NOTES. lent beauty that hath not fome ftrangenefs in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether A pelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler : whereof the one would make a perfonage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the bed parts out of divers facet to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness...the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles, oy Albert Durer, were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions:... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness...parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please no body but the painter that made them ; not but I think a painter... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...That is the best part of Beauty which a picture cannot express, no nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness...best parts out of divers faces to make one Excellent. Such personages I think would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think a painter... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...the best part of Beauty which a picture cannot express, no nor the first sight of the life. There i* no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness...best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Such personages I think would please nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I think a painter... | |
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There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts... 
