 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...belt Parts out of divers Faces to make one excellent. Such Perfonages I think would pleafe no body, but the Painter that made them. Not but I think a...Painter may make a better Face than ever was, but he muft do it by a kind of Felicity, ( as a Mufician that maketh an excellent Air in Mufick ) and not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1720 - 528 pages
...Piftures, I think, would pleafe no Body, but the Painter that made them. Not but that I think a 27® EAUTY. a Painter may make a better .Face than ever was: But he muft do it by a kind of Felicity or Chance,, (as a Mufician that maketh an excellent Air in Mufick)... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...taking the beft parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such perfonages, I think, would pleafe nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think,...painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he muft do it by a kind of felicity, as a mufkian that maketh an excellent ayre in mufic, and not by rule.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...Ragion Poetica. In Napoli. 1716, pag. 239, 250. •}. Ver. 141. pleafe 134 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS pleafe nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I...painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he muft do it by a kind of felicity, as a mufician that maketh an excellent ayre in mufic, and not by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 442 pages
...taking the beft parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Such perfonages, I think, would pleafe nobody, but the painter that made them. Not but I...painter may make a better face than ever was; but he muft do it by a kind of felicity, as a mufician that maketh an excellent air in mufic, and not by rule.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...taking the bed parts out of divers facet to make one excellent. Such perfonages, I think, would pleafe nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think,...painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he muft do it by a kind of felicity, as a mufician that maketh an excellent air in mufic, and not by rule.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...taking the beft parts out of divers facci to make one excellent. Such perfonages, I think, would pleafe nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think,...painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he muft do it by a kind of felicity, as a mufician that maketh an excellent air in mufic, and not by rule.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...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...think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; bat he must do it by a kind of felicity, (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music) and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...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...better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind Music resembles Poetry ; in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...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...better face than ever was; but he must do it by- a kind Music resembles Poetry ; in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand... | |
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Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them.... 
