 ... presuming to measure how much or how little of historical matter these legends may contain. If the reader blame me for not assisting him to determine this— if he ask me why I do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 1321847Full view - About this book
 | Robert Aspland - 1846 - 798 pages
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to" him, on exhibiting...by any ingenuity be withdrawn. I undertake only to shew it as it stands — not to efface, still less to re-paint it" In the same way Mr. Grote deals... | |
 | 1846 - 800 pages
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him, on exhibiting...his masterpiece of imitative art — 'The curtain г'в the picture.' What we now read as poetry and legend was once accredited history, and the only... | |
 | 1847 - 818 pages
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture, — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him, on exhibiting...of imitative art — ' The curtain is the picture.' supposed historic fact which it is What we now read as poetry and thought to conceal, and which is... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — 1 reply in the worde of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him, on exhibiting...which the first Greeks could conceive or relish of the past time: the curtain ronceais nothing behind, and cannot by any possibility be withdrawn. I undertake... | |
 | 1848 - 1390 pages
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — 1 reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question, was addressed to him, on exhibiting...which the first Greeks could conceive or relish of the past time: the curtain conceals nothing behind, and cannot by any possibility be withdrawn. I undertake... | |
 | 1848 - 734 pages
...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him, on exhibiting his masterpiece of imitative art: 'The curtain it the picture.' What %ve now read as poetry and legend, was once accredited history, and the only... | |
 | George Grote - 1851 - 706 pages
...I do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture—I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting his master-piece of imitative art—"The curtain is the picture." What we now read as poetry and legend was once accredited history,... | |
 | Edward Pococke - 1852 - 444 pages
...do not withdraw the curtain and disclose the picture, I reply, in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him, on exhibiting...cannot by any ingenuity be withdrawn. I undertake to show it only as it stands ; not to efface it — still less to repaint it." ' To say that " the... | |
 | 1852 - 388 pages
...disclose how this can be, enunciate his pointed dictum, — " I reply, in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting...masterpiece of imitative art, 'the curtain is the picture.'"3 Whether the representation of a curtain be a work of the highest art, is an sesthetical... | |
 | 1854 - 778 pages
...do not undraw the curtain, and disclose the picture? — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting...his master-piece of imitative art : ' The curtain i» the picture.' " Compare this with Pliny, Nat. Hist. xxxv. 36. § 3. ; from which it appears that... | |
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